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Blog For Arizona: Obama's education bully pulpit

by David Safier In the heady days of the presidential campaign, I had a thought that made my eyes mist over. I imagined President Obama delivering a short speech at the beginning of the school year urging students to do…

Podcast 17: Buying and Owning a Home in Today's Market …

In this episode of the Consumerism Commentary Podcast Tom Dziubek and I discuss home purchasing and ownership with David Crook, editor of the Wall Street Journal Sunday and author of Complete Home Owner’s Guidebook and Complete …

Home sizes shrink for the first time in 15 years

If so, the data that we use to evaluate home sales could get complicated. In his book “The Subprime Solution,” economist Robert Shiller explains that in the past, home value appreciation appears to have been greater than it really was …