Austin ranked 9th best in the US with less than a 1% risk of a price decline

November 3, 2008

PMI Fall 2008 Risk Index Indicates Rising Foreclosures and Unemployment Intensifying Risk of Future Home Price Declines Housing Affordability Continues to Improve WALNUT CREEK, Calif., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ — PMI Mortgage Insurance Co., the primary U.S. subsidiary of The PMI Group, Inc. (NYSE: PMI), today released its Fall 2008 U.S. Market Risk Index(SM), which shows [...]

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Fearless Predictions

November 1, 2008

DE-FENSE [clap, clap] DE-FENSE [clap, clap]. That needs to be our chant throughout the entire game tomorrow because…the best defense WINS this one! The Wizard of Odd will have his Crazy Pirate Crew fired up, but will it be enough? First, some random observations from last week: It was not a pretty showing. We were [...]

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Signs show Austin home prices cooling

October 24, 2008

By Shonda Novak AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN Tuesday, October 21, 2008 In September, Central Texas home sales fell for the 15th consecutive month as the Austin area continued to feel the effects of the national real estate slowdown, tighter lending standards and heightened uncertainty about the economy. But the median price of $182,600 was unchanged from last [...]

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FEARLESS PREDICTIONS 10/16

October 16, 2008

BOOM Sooners!  Thanks for visiting, now get in your homes and head back north!!  What an amazing weekend of football.  It’s been a long while since the Horns took care of business AND got some help from the competition, but it all came together for the ultimate prize.  There’s so much to talk about, I [...]

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FEARLESS PREDICTIONS UT VS OU

October 10, 2008

Buffalo burgers.  That’s what I was craving after watching our sound dispatching of the Mighty Bison last Saturday.  How about Chris Ogbonnaya?  116 receiving yds, 71 yds rushing including a 51 yard crusher that took the life out of CU. We haven’t had a complete game like that from one of our RB’s in recent [...]

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FEARLESS PREDICTION – UT vs CU

October 4, 2008

How ironic that Bill Murray was on the sideline for last Saturday’s game. When I looked at our young DB’s, I couldn’t help thinking about his movie “What About Bob?”…baby steps. When I looked at the score, I thought about “Groundhog Day”…52-10, again? Or maybe “Caddyshack”? Giddyup…you crazy gopher hunter! What a great time it [...]

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October 4, 2008

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House votes down massive bailout measure

September 29, 2008

BREAKING NEWS WASHINGTON – The House on Monday defeated a $700 billion emergency rescue package, ignoring urgent pleas from President Bush and bipartisan congressional leaders to quickly bail out the staggering financial industry. Stocks plummeted on Wall Street even before the 228-205 vote to reject the bill was announced on the House floor. When the [...]

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FEARLESS PREDICTIONS – UT VS ARK

September 26, 2008

Oh, the Hater-aid will be flowing in Austin tomorrow!  With Rice and Arkansas back to back, I’m having flashbacks of the old Southwest Conference.  Speaking of Rice and Arkansas back to back, I think I like this revised order in which we play them better this way…the reason (Ike) is horrible, but the results for [...]

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Plan to avert market depression in works

September 22, 2008

AUSTIN, Texas (NBC) — In another dramatic development from Wall Street, two finance giants are trying to save themselves. It comes as lawmakers this week debate a plan Bush administration officials said will avert a depression. With the fed’s approval Sunday night, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley will become more like traditional banks, taking deposits, [...]

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