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POPSSustainable Prefab Homes in Turkey Sustainable Prefabs from Orca Yapı: a steel-structured prefabricated home unit that could endure temperatures ranging from plus 50 degrees to minus 50 degrees Celsius, durable in earthquakes reaching 7.5 on the Richter scale, that is cheap to make "The baseline cost for a unit, which does not include any alternative energy production methods like the active solar power water heating system that is installed on the show model in Kocaeli, is $295 per square meter... 10 times cheaper than comparable units."
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POPS Bailout Is Not The Right Answer
This subprime lending was more than a minor relaxation of existing credit guidelines. This lending was a wholesale abandonment of reasonable lending practices in which borrowers with poor credit characteristics got mortgages they were ill-equipped to handle. Once housing prices declined and economic conditions worsened, defaults and delinquencies soared, leaving the industry holding large amounts of severely depreciated mortgage assets. The fact that government bears such a huge responsibility for the current mess means any response should eliminate the conditions that created this situation in the first place, not attempt to fix bad government with more government. The obvious alternative to a bailout is letting troubled financial institutions declare bankruptcy. Bankruptcy means that shareholders typically get wiped out and the creditors own the company. Bankruptcy does not mean the company disappears; it is just owned by someone new (as has occurred with several airline
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POPSECO Housing.. We, the People have the alternatives So we should get rid of all those, that stand in the way of building a better future. By electing those with the ideas that promote, explore and use the alternatives already at hand and support investments into the alternative energy and home land protection as we need it. We need to protect our home land and preserve a balance in all. Harmony is the goal on all levels of life. Balance and harmony. All else will follow.
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POPSThe Ghost of Lawrence Welk
"Stop the bubble machine." It takes an amateur sometimes to sense a concept in their soul without a bunch of technical knowledge to get in the way and cloud a person's insights. There just seemed something fake, artificial "built on sand" about the tech and housing markets. And to fit the evolving puzzle, the next piece had to be global in scale; had to have emotional and convincing sponsorship; and had to step up the stakes in terms of a sense of necessity if not desperation -- and that piece -- that new bubble -- is YOU GUESSED IT -- GLOBAL WARMING. If you haven't been suspicious of the promotion of this thing your head is....well, you've been played. Or something. The growth of the tech industry was not the way business grows in a healthy manner; people's squandering of every new dollar of their wildly inflated, on-loan home equity was as self-destructive as a cocaine addict blowin' the month's pay in one night; and -- NOW -- the corporate world being in an unnatural perverse int
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POPSStop a Foreclosure Sale Get help for your foreclosure worries. You have options. Relax and find out what they are. use this clip, the article and the link to advantage.
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POPSForeclosure in a Tight Market Sell fast or foreclose- tough decision. Tougher when houses aren't selling, or selling too cheap. See some alternatives here, with this clip, article and link.
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POPSStop a Foreclosure Sale There may be several alternatives to bearing a foreclosure sale. This article and link can help you sort them out.
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POPSFree apartments for Indian slum dwellers This is an interesting alternative to the standard urban renewal techniques of the West (kick 'em out, export them to other neighborhoods). However, there are some possible downsides, which are pointed out in the full article.
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