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Today's
Stories
September
19, 2007
Paul
Craig Roberts
Why Did Senator John Kerry Stand
Idly By?
Paul
Krassner
The Power of Laughter
Sgt.
Martin Smith
The New Private Warriors: Blackwater in Iraq
Claud
Cockburn
Looking back at the Great Crash
Victoria
Buch
Israel's Agenda for Ethnic Cleansing
and Transfer
September
18, 2007
Mike
Whitney
U.S. Banks Brace for Storm Surge
as Dollar and Credit System Reel
Alan
Farago
Interviewing Alan Greenspan: How 60
Minutes Blew It
John
Ross
America's Great Wall:
Where Will the Workers Go
When They Finish It?
Ron
Jacobs
Nooses Hung From Jena, La. to College
Park, Md.
Alex
Doherty
Britain's 9/11 "Truth Movement":
Who's Responsible?
September
17, 2007
Marjorie
Cohn
Erwin Chemerinsky and the Post-9/11
Attack on Academic Freedom
Paul
Craig Roberts
Conservatism Isn't What It Used to
Be
Ricardo
Alarcón
The Return of C. Wright Mills Amid
the Dawn of a New Era
Marc
Levy
Fake Vets Chasing Fame
Eva
Liddell
In 1969 We Already Knew What 2007
Would Look Like
Website
of the Day
Propaganda:
Your Job in Germany. Directed by Frank Capra, and written by
Theodor Geisel
Sept.
15-16, 2007
Alexander
Cockburn
The General Came to Washington
Vicente
Navarro
How the U.S. Schemed Against Spain's
Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy
Mike
Whitney
Plummeting Dollar, Credit Crunch
Herman
Mindshaftgap
Has There Ever Been a Surge?
If so, Has it a Future?
Ellen
Cantarow
Girls! Music! Palestine!
Jordan
Flaherty
K-Ville: Fox's New Paean to the
N.O.P.D.
Zachary
Hurwitz
Julio Cusurichi on Amazonian Development
September
14, 2007
Debbie
Nathan
New York Times reporter was a member
of an illegal underage porn site, claims he was only "posing
as online predator"
Franklin
Lamb
Sabra-Shatilla, 25 Years Later
Patrick
Cockburn
Greet Bush and Die: The Killing of
Abu Risha
Farzana
Versey
The World's Richest Muslim Tycoon
Alan
Farago
This is Florida, Epicenter of the
Housing Bust and of Public Corruption
Hank
Edson
Bill's New Book is Giving Me a Headache
September
13, 2007
Patrick
Cockburn
Petraeus Confided Presidential Ambitions
to Iraqi Official
Scott
Vest, former Air Force Captain at Minot
The Barksdale Nukes
Andy
Worthington
Guantánamo: "Ghost"
Prisoners Speak At Last
Michael
Baney
Mr. Fixit of Quake-Stricken Peru Has
Death Squad Past
Dr.
Susan Block
Is U.S. Run by Secret Homintern?
September
12, 2007
Paul
Craig Roberts
American Economy: RIP
Stan
Goff
The Petraeus Report
William
Blum
When Soldiers Mutiny...Only Those Fighting
the War Can End It.
Manuel
Garcia
Forgetting 9/11
Debbie
Nathan
Why One Sex Survey Didn't Make the
Big Time
September
11, 2007
Patrick
Cockburn
The Fakery of General Petraeus
Iain
Boal
Specters of Malthus: Scarcity, Poverty,
Apocalypse
Michael
Dickinson
Osama on 9/11
Guerry
Hoddersen
Free Speech is Not Given, but Taken
Bill
Hatch
Irish Politics in Old Time California
Gary
Leupp
The Legacy of Luciano Pavarotti
Website
of the Day
Elisa Salasin's
"My September 11th"
September
10, 2007
Uri
Avnery
A Big Victory Against the Wall
Patrick
Cockburn
Petraeus's Closet
Saul
Landau and Farrah Hassen
Screwing Up In Iraq
David
Michael Green
Why Fred Thompson is Uniquely Qualified
to be the GOP's Nominee
Pius
Adesanmi
A Solidarity Letter to a Victim
of Michael Vick
Betty
Schneider
How to Deal With Sex Offenders
September
8 / 9, 2007
Alexander
Cockburn
Will the US Really Bomb Iran?
Saul
Landau
The Irrational Drama of a Declining Empire
Ismael
Hossein-Zadeh
Hurricane Katrina and Bush's Wars
Ray
McGovern
Petraeus, the Westmoreland of Iraq
Matthew
Abraham
Finkelstein's Legacy at DePaul
Alan
Farago
The Governor and the Growth Machine
Christopher
Brauchli
Grand Old Party Animals
Rannie
Amiri
Battle of the Camps
Fred
Gardner
Will Snoops Get Stopped?
James
L. Secor
B-52 Flexing Nuclear Muscles: H-Bombs Over Barksdale
Missy
Comley Beattie
Choices: Shall We Stay or Shall We Go Now?
Ben
Tripp
Still in the Clover
Francis
Boyle
The University of Illinois' Little Red Sambo Show
Joe
Allen and Paul D'Amato
Jason Bourne vs. James Bond
Website
of the Weekend
Drilling Wyoming: the View from Above
September 7, 2007
Robert
Fantina
Those Iraq Reports: Bush vs. Reality
John
Ross
Coca-Cola's Raid on a Sacred Mountain
James
Brooks
The Occupation Within
Russell
Mokhiber
Robert Reich and the Elimination of Corporate Criminal Liability
Joshua
Frank
The Green Implosion Continues: Cyberlynching John Murphy
John
Walsh
On the Green Party
Mark
Brenner
New York Taxi Workers Strike Over Tracking Devices
Mike
Ferner
"I Will Salute No More Forever"
Website
of the Day
Help Save Osny Zachary's Life
September
6, 2007
Kathleen
and Bill Christison
Bush, Iran and Israel's Hidden
Hand
Allan
J. Lichtman
When General Petraeus Speaks, Don't Listen ...
Norman
Solomon
The Secret Addiction of Thomas Friedman
Yifat
Susskind
Hurricane Felix's First Responders: Courage and Tragedy on the
Miskito Coast
Catherine
Fenton
Why I Am Going to the Protest
Laura
Santina
Can the War Machine be Contained?
Farzana
Versey
Fission Kashmir
Yves
Engler
Haiti: Where a Wage of $2 a Day is Too Much for the Lords of
Industry to Pay
Kelly
Overton
Bang Bang; Shoot Shoot: Is Hunting Racist?
Michael
Simmons
One Jew's Views: The Strange Genius of Drew Friedman and Kominsky
Crumb
Website
of the Day
Dams and Genocide in Guatemala
September
5, 2007
Stan
Goff
The End Begins
Michael
Dickinson
Working for Mother Teresa: Memoirs of a Rebellious Volunteer
Matthew
Abraham
Standing Firm with Norman Finkelstein and DePaul's Heroic Students:
a Defining Moment
Patrick
Cockburn
The Basra Debacle
Dave
Lindorff
Beware the Wounded Beast
Paul
Craig Roberts
Who Are the Fanatics?
Clifton
Ross
Ecuador and the Struggle for Latin American Unity
Elizabeth
Schulte
Katrina's Forgotten Refugees
Joseph
Grosso
Labor Day in New York City
Ben
Terrall
Where's Nancy? On Trying to Protest Pelosi in San Francisco
Website
of the Day
A Guide to Narco Dollars
September
4, 2007
Jean
Bricmont
Why Bush Can Get Away with Attacking
Iran
Patrick
Cockburn
Cut and Run in Iraq
Ron
Jacobs
The Haditha Massacre: Spinning a War Crime
Tom
Kerr
Buried Alive on San Quentin's Death Row
Gary
Leupp
The Case of Jose Maria Sison
Sonja
Karkar
The Weeping Olive Trees of Palestine
Heather
Gray
The Best and Worst of America: 9/11, Joseph Lowery and the Lethal
Silence of Billy Graham
Fidel
Castro
The Super-Revolutionaries
Jackie
Corr
Home Depot Comes to Butte--Begging Bowl in Hand
Sunsara
Taylor
Katrina and the Progress of the System
Website
of the Day
Colombia Journal
September
3, 2007
Patrick
Cockburn
Brits Flee from Basra
Eamon
McCann
Qana, Derry: The Dead Lie in Familiar Shapes
Joshua
Frank
The End of the Green Party?
Chris
Floyd
Post-Mortem America: Bush's Year of Triumph
Marjorie
Cohn
A Look at Bush's Iran War Plans
Walter
Brasch
The News Drones: How Fake Photos Helped Lead the US to War in
Iraq
Matt
Reichel
Redefining the American Dream
Website
of the Day
Don't Get Fooled Again
September
1 / 2, 2007
Alexander
Cockburn
Entrapment Snares Larry Craig
Andy
Worthington
Britain's Guantánamo
Saul
Landau
The Tragic Ordeal of the Cuban Five
David
Keen
An Occident Waiting to Happen: Intellectuals and the War on Terror
Patrick
Cockburn
The Collapse of Iraq's Health Care
Services
Diana
Johnstone
Back in Uncle Sam's Pocket
George
Longstreth, MD
& Karen Longstreth, RN
The Sorrows of Occupation: Life in the West Bank
Linda
M. Woolf
A Sad Day for Psychologists--a Sadder Day for Human Rights
Ralph
Nader
Wrapping the World with Advertising
Fred
Gardner
The Trial of Mollie Fry, MD
Ben
Tripp
Enquiry in America Today
David
Michael Green
American Indigestion: Why Bush Governs from the Gut
Missy
Comley Beattie
Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: What the GOP Hasn't
Learned About Tolerance
Michael
Dickinson
Who's Cheating: Remembering Princess Diana
Paul
Krassner
Assholes of the Week: From Larry Craig to Wesley Clark
Ron
Jacobs
A Sports Nation of Millions
Poets'
Basement
Buknatski, Davies and Mickey Z
August
31, 2007
Jeff
Gibbs
Why I Am Not Going to the Protest
Paul
Craig Roberts
The War Criminal in the Living Room
Ray
McGovern
Do We Have the Courage to Stop War with Iran?
Robert
Weissman
The Benchmarks Iraq is Missing
Matt
Vidal
Subprime Lending and Shady Mortgages
Robin
Mittenthal
The Biofuels Trap
Chris
Kutalik
Auto Makers Push Health Care Trust Solution for Industry in Crisis
Richard
Forno
Watching Freedom's Watch
Binoy
Kampmark
Dianified
Dave
Zirin
Kenneth Foster Lives
Website
of the Day
Free
the Jena 6
August
30, 2007
Gary
Leupp
Larry Craig on the Seat
John
Ross
Dead Forest Defenders
Anthony
DiMaggio
Arabic as a Terrorist Language: the Right-Wing Assault on the
Gibran Academy
Jordan
Flaherty
Racism and Criminal Justice in New Orleans
Michael
Donnelly
The Sierra Club Greenwashes Al Gore (and Desecrates John Muir)
Russell
Mokhiber
Whiskey is for Drinking, Water is
for Fighting
Dennis
Brutus
and Patrick Bond
Global Financial Apartheid
William
S. Lind
The Truth Tellers
Martha
Rosenberg
They Call Him Dr. Cruel
Jeff
Leys / Brian Terrell
Seasons of Discontent: a Presidential Occupation Project
Website
of the Day
Bragg: "Old Clash Fan Fight Song"
August 29, 2007
Patrick
Cockburn
Maliki and The Mass Shia Pilgrimage
to Kerbala
Winslow
T. Wheeler
The Costs of the Afghanistan War
David
Rosen
The GOP's Outed All-Stars: The Forced Freeing of Gay Men from
the Republican Closet
Dave
Zirin
Confronting Katrina
Paul
Craig Roberts
More Shame, More Sorrow
Diane
Farsetta
Christie Todd Whitman's Nuclear Spinning Wheel
Ben
Davis
Who Won't Stand Up for Kenneth Foster?: Charles Rangel, For One
Alan
Farago
The Housing Crisis and the Environment
Jenna
Orkin
Echoes of 9/11: Another Fire at Ground Zero
Don
Monkerud
The Vanishing American Vacation
Richard
Nasser
Surfing Gaza: More Uplifting News from NPR
Website
of the Day
Don't Sleep on the Struggle
August
28, 2007
Uri
Avnery
The Language of Force
Bill
Quigley
Katrina, Two Years Later
Joshua
Frank
The Fight to Save the Rocky Mountains
China
Hand
"I am Alden Pyle:" Bush's Vietnam Fantasy
Firmin
DeBrabander
Drug Wars: From Afghanistan to Baltimore
Charles
Peña
Nuclear Fear Factor
Andy
Worthington
Good Riddance, Gonzales
Ramzy
Baroud
Abbas and the Abyss
Anthony
Papa
Roger Stone's New Patsy
Ashley
Smith
Drawing the Line at Kennebunkport
Website
of the Day
B is for Bomb
August 27, 2007
Jorge
Mariscal
The General Reports
Bill
Christison
Why the US and Israel Should Lose Middle East Wars
Manuel
Garcia, Jr.
911 Emergency! Calling Robert Fisk!: You are Now Entering a Black
Hole
Anthony
DiMaggio
Chronicle of a Coup Foretold?: Bush, al-Maliki and the Press
Bruce
A. Roth
India and the New Nuclear Era
John
Walsh
Abe Foxman's Genocide Denial Roadshow, Part 2
Dave
Lindorff
Gonzo's Gone
Ron
Jacobs
Taking It to the Streets
Binoy
Kampmark
Poshed Up: Why the Beckhams Should Go Back to Brighty
Russell
D. Hoffman
My Favorite Scientist: John Gofman, Bane of the Nuclear Industry
Website
of the Day
George W. Told the Nation
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September
19, 2007
Living in a Dilapidated
Market
To
Rent or Own?
By SETH SANDRONSKY
Are you a renter now in the U.S.? If
so, perhaps thoughts of ditching that arrangement with a landlord
and buying a home are dancing in your mind now that nation's
housing prices and sales are dropping and homeowner foreclosures
are rising. Is it the time to buy a home?
If this question is rattling around your head, consider this,
lest you are over-burdened with money and can afford to part
with yours. Home buyers need solid data, above and beyond advertising
and marketing, to make an informed purchase. Fortunately, Washington
, D.C. 's Center for Economic and Policy Research has updated
its snappy
Housing Cost Calculator for people just like you, based on
Uncle Sam's data.
Enter the home price, down payment, mortgage rate, tax bracket
and future sell-date, and you will get the "net cost of
owning." The calculator compares that to the cost of renting
for the same period of time. Check it out.
Besides a home sale price in the future less than the initial
purchase price, there are fees and commissions to consider in
owning a house. Call these hidden costs, if you will. Whatever
your term, you will be paying these costs to play the home-buying
game.
Of course, your family and friends who are still employed in
the mortgage and real estate industries that are shedding jobs
left and right might not like you for using the Housing Cost
Calculator numbers. You might do just that, though, and decide
you're better off renting than buying. Why? The simple reason
is the calculator relies on one important assumption: that the
historic rise in U.S. home prices the past 10 years will return
to the "more normal historic trend."
Funny how mainstream economists and pundits failed to see that
home prices over the last decade diverged from trend prices,
which bubbled up and up, thanks in no small part to the "easy
money" policies of the former head of the Federal Reserve,
Alan Greenspan, whose new book, "The Age of Turbulence:
Adventures in a New World," is just out and headline news.
Helping to propel the U.S. home bubble, the Chairman cut, again
and again, the cost to borrow money. His monetary policy followed
the bust of the dot-com/hi-tech stock market bubble that, in
turn, spawned the 2001 recession underway prior to the September
11 attacks on the East Coast.
Meanwhile, the once-growing U.S. housing bubble is shrinking
fast. This deflationary trend of falling home prices and sales
means a lot of pain and suffering for working people who bought
houses at the bubbly peak, scores of whom agreed to terms that
put them financially at-risk. Many of them would be in better
shape if they had access to the CEPR's Housing Cost Calculator
before buying a home.
Seth Sandronsky is a member of Sacramento Area Peace Action
and a co-editor of Because People Matter, Sacramento's progressive
paper www.bpmnews.org/.
He can be reached at: bpmnews@nicetechnology.com.
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