Sunday, March 27, 2016
Friday, March 25, 2016
The Golden Generation - The New Yorker
The Golden Generation - The New Yorker: "The West is the plan for many of China’s new rich. In the past decade, they have swept into cities like New York, London, and Los Angeles, snapping up real estate and provoking anxieties about inequality and globalized wealth. Rich Chinese have become a fixture in the public imagination, the way rich Russians were in the nineteen-nineties and rich people from the Gulf states were in the decades before that. The Chinese presence in Vancouver is particularly pronounced, thanks to the city’s position on the Pacific Rim, its pleasant climate, and its easy pace of life. China’s newly minted millionaires see the city as a haven in which to place not only their money but, increasingly, their offspring, who come there to get an education, to start businesses, and to socialize."
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Do You Know About Berke Khan, The First Mongol Ruler Who Embraced Islam? | Mvslim
Do You Know About Berke Khan, The First Mongol Ruler Who Embraced Islam? | Mvslim: "Hulagu headed towards Iraq, determined to subjugate the caliph. Some Shias within Iraq were alienated from the caliph, who showed little respect for their community. As a result, cities with a substantial Shia presence like Najaf, Karbala, and Mosul, surrendered to the Mongols without a fight. In January 1258 Hulagu’s entire army had arrived in Baghdad. The Mongols captured the city within two weeks. A month later al-Mustasim was executed. Baghdad, a glorious city, a city home to intellectuals and artists, a city which had stood for over six centuries, was sacked and burned to the ground. Many of Baghdad’s citizens were massacred."
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Child marriage chart reveals girls can wed at 12 in some parts of the US - as lawmakers battle to raise age to 16 | Americas | News | The Independent
Child marriage chart reveals girls can wed at 12 in some parts of the US - as lawmakers battle to raise age to 16 | Americas | News | The Independent: "In the state of Virginia, it is officially still legal for girls as young as 12 or 13 to be brought to a courthouse with evidence of a pregnancy and wed, a practice that has come under increased scrutiny thanks to the Virginia Senator Jill Vogel R-Fauquier.
Legislation she introduced, which is now moving through the Virginia General Assembly, seeks to raise the minimum age for marriage to 16 to bring it in line with other states - and similar moves are under way in Maryland and New York, where 3,853 minors were married between 2000 and 2010, according to State Health Department data published in the New York Times.
In Virginia itself, according to state health statistics, more than 4,500 minors were married between 2000 and 2013, including about 220 who were 15 or younger.
And a separate Statista chart plotting the minimum legal age of marriage for girls worldwide reveals that the US is one of the lowest on record, with several places - including Massachusetts - allowing girls as young as 12 to be wed with the consent of a judge."
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Legislation she introduced, which is now moving through the Virginia General Assembly, seeks to raise the minimum age for marriage to 16 to bring it in line with other states - and similar moves are under way in Maryland and New York, where 3,853 minors were married between 2000 and 2010, according to State Health Department data published in the New York Times.
In Virginia itself, according to state health statistics, more than 4,500 minors were married between 2000 and 2013, including about 220 who were 15 or younger.
And a separate Statista chart plotting the minimum legal age of marriage for girls worldwide reveals that the US is one of the lowest on record, with several places - including Massachusetts - allowing girls as young as 12 to be wed with the consent of a judge."
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Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Deep Learning Is Going to Teach Us All the Lesson of Our Lives: Jobs Are for Machines — Basic income — Medium
Deep Learning Is Going to Teach Us All the Lesson of Our Lives: Jobs Are for Machines — Basic income — Medium: "All of this is why it’s those most knowledgeable in the AI field who are now actively sounding the alarm for basic income. During a panel discussion at the end of 2015 at Singularity University, prominent data scientist Jeremy Howard asked “Do you want half of people to starve because they literally can’t add economic value, or not?” before going on to suggest, ”If the answer is not, then the smartest way to distribute the wealth is by implementing a universal basic income.”
AI pioneer Chris Eliasmith, director of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience, warned about the immediate impacts of AI on society in an interview with Futurism, “AI is already having a big impact on our economies… My suspicion is that more countries will have to follow Finland’s lead in exploring basic income guarantees for people.”
Moshe Vardi expressed the same sentiment after speaking at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science about the emergence of intelligent machines, “we need to rethink the very basic structure of our economic system… we may have to consider instituting a basic income guarantee.”
Even Baidu’s chief scientist and founder of Google’s “Google Brain” deep learning project, Andrew Ng, during an onstage interview at this year’s Deep Learning Summit, expressed the shared notion that basic income must be “seriously considered” by governments, citing “a high chance that AI will create massive labor displacement.”"
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AI pioneer Chris Eliasmith, director of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience, warned about the immediate impacts of AI on society in an interview with Futurism, “AI is already having a big impact on our economies… My suspicion is that more countries will have to follow Finland’s lead in exploring basic income guarantees for people.”
Moshe Vardi expressed the same sentiment after speaking at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science about the emergence of intelligent machines, “we need to rethink the very basic structure of our economic system… we may have to consider instituting a basic income guarantee.”
Even Baidu’s chief scientist and founder of Google’s “Google Brain” deep learning project, Andrew Ng, during an onstage interview at this year’s Deep Learning Summit, expressed the shared notion that basic income must be “seriously considered” by governments, citing “a high chance that AI will create massive labor displacement.”"
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Deep Learning Is Going to Teach Us All the Lesson of Our Lives: Jobs Are for Machines — Basic income — Medium
Deep Learning Is Going to Teach Us All the Lesson of Our Lives: Jobs Are for Machines — Basic income — Medium: "Because of this, it’s been estimated that she can put 250 million people out of a job, worldwide.
Viv is an AI coming soon from the creators of Siri who’ll be our own personal assistant. She’ll perform tasks online for us, and even function as a Facebook News Feed on steroids by suggesting we consume the media she’ll know we’ll like best. In doing all of this for us, we’ll see far fewer ads, and that means the entire advertising industry — that industry the entire Internet is built upon — stands to be hugely disrupted.
A world with Amelia and Viv — and the countless other AI counterparts coming online soon — in combination with robots like Boston Dynamics’ next generation Atlas portends, is a world where machines can do all four types of jobs and that means serious societal reconsiderations. If a machine can do a job instead of a human, should any human be forced at the threat of destitution to perform that job? Should income itself remain coupled to employment, such that having a job is the only way to obtain income, when jobs for many are entirely unobtainable? If machines are performing an increasing percentage of our jobs for us, and not getting paid to do them, where does that money go instead? And what does it no longer buy? Is it even possible that many of the jobs we’re creating don’t need to exist at all, and only do because of the incomes they provide? These are questions we need to start asking, and fast.
Decoupling Income From Work
Fortunately, people are beginning to ask these questions, and there’s an answer that’s building up momentum. The idea is to put machines to work for us, but empower ourselves to seek out the forms of remaining work we as humans find most valuable, by simply providing everyone a monthly paycheck independent of work. This paycheck would be granted to all citizens unconditionally, and its name is universal basic income. By adopting UBI, aside from immunizing against the negative effects of automation, we’d also be decreasing the risks inherent in entrepreneurship, and the sizes of bureaucracies necessary to boost incomes. It’s for these reasons, it has cross-partisan support, and is even now in the beginning stages of possible implementation in countries like Switzerland, Finland, the Netherlands, and Canada.
The future is a place of accelerating changes. It seems unwise to continue looking at the future as if it were the past, where just because new jobs have historically appeared, they always will. The WEF started 2016 off by estimating the creation by 2020 of 2 million new jobs alongside the elimination of 7 million. That’s a net loss, not a net gain of 5 million jobs. In a frequently cited paper, an Oxford study estimated the automation of about half of all existing jobs by 2033. Meanwhile self-driving vehicles, again thanks to machine learning, have the capability of drastically impacting all economies — especially the US economy as I wrote last year about automating truck driving — by eliminating millions of jobs within a short span of time."
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Viv is an AI coming soon from the creators of Siri who’ll be our own personal assistant. She’ll perform tasks online for us, and even function as a Facebook News Feed on steroids by suggesting we consume the media she’ll know we’ll like best. In doing all of this for us, we’ll see far fewer ads, and that means the entire advertising industry — that industry the entire Internet is built upon — stands to be hugely disrupted.
A world with Amelia and Viv — and the countless other AI counterparts coming online soon — in combination with robots like Boston Dynamics’ next generation Atlas portends, is a world where machines can do all four types of jobs and that means serious societal reconsiderations. If a machine can do a job instead of a human, should any human be forced at the threat of destitution to perform that job? Should income itself remain coupled to employment, such that having a job is the only way to obtain income, when jobs for many are entirely unobtainable? If machines are performing an increasing percentage of our jobs for us, and not getting paid to do them, where does that money go instead? And what does it no longer buy? Is it even possible that many of the jobs we’re creating don’t need to exist at all, and only do because of the incomes they provide? These are questions we need to start asking, and fast.
Decoupling Income From Work
Fortunately, people are beginning to ask these questions, and there’s an answer that’s building up momentum. The idea is to put machines to work for us, but empower ourselves to seek out the forms of remaining work we as humans find most valuable, by simply providing everyone a monthly paycheck independent of work. This paycheck would be granted to all citizens unconditionally, and its name is universal basic income. By adopting UBI, aside from immunizing against the negative effects of automation, we’d also be decreasing the risks inherent in entrepreneurship, and the sizes of bureaucracies necessary to boost incomes. It’s for these reasons, it has cross-partisan support, and is even now in the beginning stages of possible implementation in countries like Switzerland, Finland, the Netherlands, and Canada.
The future is a place of accelerating changes. It seems unwise to continue looking at the future as if it were the past, where just because new jobs have historically appeared, they always will. The WEF started 2016 off by estimating the creation by 2020 of 2 million new jobs alongside the elimination of 7 million. That’s a net loss, not a net gain of 5 million jobs. In a frequently cited paper, an Oxford study estimated the automation of about half of all existing jobs by 2033. Meanwhile self-driving vehicles, again thanks to machine learning, have the capability of drastically impacting all economies — especially the US economy as I wrote last year about automating truck driving — by eliminating millions of jobs within a short span of time."
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Austin ‘Top Chef’ winner arrested, accused of assaulting girlfriend | KXAN.com
Austin ‘Top Chef’ winner arrested, accused of assaulting girlfriend | KXAN.com: "AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin chef and restaurateur Paul Qui was arrested Saturday morning accused of assaulting his girlfriend, according to an arrest affidavit.
Police responded to Qui’s apartment in East Austin just before 8 a.m. after receiving a call from Qui’s friend who said “his friend and his girlfriend were fighting” in the apartment. When officers arrived, they heard screaming and yelling coming from the apartment before the door was opened, continued in the court documents
When Qui, 31, opened the door, officers noted he had “blood all over his face, arms, legs and clothing.” Officers noticed the woman inside the apartment was crying and clutching a small child, according to the affidavit. Officers reported the apartment was in disarray with furniture and glass broken—blood was also found smeared on the walls and the floor of the apartment, according to the affidavit.
The victim told police “Qui is very controlling and extremely jealous.” The victim said she had been asleep with her son when Qui and his friends came home and began partaking in drugs and alcohol before waking her up and asking her to join the partying. The victim said she agreed and joined the party, having a couple of drinks before she said an intoxicated Qui began accusing his friends of flirting with her before kicking them all out, continued in the affidavit.
The victim then stated Qui became enraged and began knocking over furniture and breaking glass. She then grabbed some of her things and tried to leave with her son, but said Qui “stood in front of the door” and blocked her exit and “forcibly pushed her and her son away.”"
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Police responded to Qui’s apartment in East Austin just before 8 a.m. after receiving a call from Qui’s friend who said “his friend and his girlfriend were fighting” in the apartment. When officers arrived, they heard screaming and yelling coming from the apartment before the door was opened, continued in the court documents
When Qui, 31, opened the door, officers noted he had “blood all over his face, arms, legs and clothing.” Officers noticed the woman inside the apartment was crying and clutching a small child, according to the affidavit. Officers reported the apartment was in disarray with furniture and glass broken—blood was also found smeared on the walls and the floor of the apartment, according to the affidavit.
The victim told police “Qui is very controlling and extremely jealous.” The victim said she had been asleep with her son when Qui and his friends came home and began partaking in drugs and alcohol before waking her up and asking her to join the partying. The victim said she agreed and joined the party, having a couple of drinks before she said an intoxicated Qui began accusing his friends of flirting with her before kicking them all out, continued in the affidavit.
The victim then stated Qui became enraged and began knocking over furniture and breaking glass. She then grabbed some of her things and tried to leave with her son, but said Qui “stood in front of the door” and blocked her exit and “forcibly pushed her and her son away.”"
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Friday, March 18, 2016
Religion is Spreading Among Younger Chinese | The Nanfang
Religion is Spreading Among Younger Chinese | The Nanfang: "Islam leading the way
Charles Liu, July 10, 2015 8:28am
China is officially an atheist state, but religion is making inroads with the country’s younger generation.
A recent survey shows over half of all Chinese religious worshipers are under 60 years of age, of which a majority under 30 are Muslim. "
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Charles Liu, July 10, 2015 8:28am
China is officially an atheist state, but religion is making inroads with the country’s younger generation.
A recent survey shows over half of all Chinese religious worshipers are under 60 years of age, of which a majority under 30 are Muslim. "
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Monday, March 14, 2016
Islamic State claims Jakarta attacks, its first strike in Indonesia - The Times of India
Islamic State claims Jakarta attacks, its first strike in Indonesia - The Times of India: "Islamic State on Thursday officially claimed responsibility for a gun and bomb assault in the centre of Jakarta earlier in the day that killed seven people, five of whom were attackers.
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Sunday, March 13, 2016
Saturday, March 12, 2016
PIO dean mum on sexual assault charges against him - Times of India
PIO dean mum on sexual assault charges against him - Times of India: "The Indian American Dean of University of California, Berkeley, law school, Sujit Choudhry, will step down after facing sexual harassment charges made by his former executive assistant Tyann Sorell.
"Based on the findings of the investigation I believed that a combination of disciplinary actions, monitoring of his behaviour and formal training would be an appropriate and effective response, and would produce the necessary changes in his behaviour," University executive vicechancellor and provost Claude Steele said.
In a complaint filed on Tuesday against Choudhry and the University of California Board of Regents, Sorell said Choudhry sexually harassed her — rubbing her shoulders and arms, kissing her cheeks and giving her bear hugs that pressed her body against him. When she brought this to the notice of supervisors, they first failed to stop Choudhry and then tried to retaliate against her. "The hugs became tighter and more lingering and the kissing more intimate in that over time Choudhry's kisses began to land closer and closer" to her mouth, according to the court documents cited in the media."
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"Based on the findings of the investigation I believed that a combination of disciplinary actions, monitoring of his behaviour and formal training would be an appropriate and effective response, and would produce the necessary changes in his behaviour," University executive vicechancellor and provost Claude Steele said.
In a complaint filed on Tuesday against Choudhry and the University of California Board of Regents, Sorell said Choudhry sexually harassed her — rubbing her shoulders and arms, kissing her cheeks and giving her bear hugs that pressed her body against him. When she brought this to the notice of supervisors, they first failed to stop Choudhry and then tried to retaliate against her. "The hugs became tighter and more lingering and the kissing more intimate in that over time Choudhry's kisses began to land closer and closer" to her mouth, according to the court documents cited in the media."
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Donald Trump quickly recants new stance on immigrant guest-workers - Washington Times
Donald Trump quickly recants new stance on immigrant guest-workers - Washington Times: "Donald Trump promised Thursday night to be flexible on immigration, and as soon as he got off the stage at the debate in Detroit he made use of that flexibility, recanting a new position on guest-workers that he’d staked out just minutes before.
In response to Fox News moderator Megyn Kelly, Mr. Trump said he had changed his stance on H-1B visas and would welcome more high-skilled workers into the U.S. workforce — a reversal of a position he listed on his campaign website."
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In response to Fox News moderator Megyn Kelly, Mr. Trump said he had changed his stance on H-1B visas and would welcome more high-skilled workers into the U.S. workforce — a reversal of a position he listed on his campaign website."
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
Organs removed from live political prisoners WITHOUT anaesthetic in China | Daily Mail Online
Organs removed from live political prisoners WITHOUT anaesthetic in China | Daily Mail Online: "Livers, kidneys and even corneas removed from 11,000 live political prisoners WITHOUT anaesthetic every year in China, claims documentary
Eight year investigation claims thousands had organs removed in China
Banned religious group Falun Gong is key target, documentary claims
Just 37 registered organ donors in China but country has the world's second highest rate of transplants
One surgeon is said to have removed corneas from 2,000 living people
Chinese government denies allegations claiming donors are volunteers "
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Eight year investigation claims thousands had organs removed in China
Banned religious group Falun Gong is key target, documentary claims
Just 37 registered organ donors in China but country has the world's second highest rate of transplants
One surgeon is said to have removed corneas from 2,000 living people
Chinese government denies allegations claiming donors are volunteers "
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Organs removed from live political prisoners WITHOUT anaesthetic in China | Daily Mail Online
Organs removed from live political prisoners WITHOUT anaesthetic in China | Daily Mail Online: "Livers, kidneys and even corneas removed from 11,000 live political prisoners WITHOUT anaesthetic every year in China, claims documentary
Eight year investigation claims thousands had organs removed in China
Banned religious group Falun Gong is key target, documentary claims
Just 37 registered organ donors in China but country has the world's second highest rate of transplants
One surgeon is said to have removed corneas from 2,000 living people
Chinese government denies allegations claiming donors are volunteers "
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Eight year investigation claims thousands had organs removed in China
Banned religious group Falun Gong is key target, documentary claims
Just 37 registered organ donors in China but country has the world's second highest rate of transplants
One surgeon is said to have removed corneas from 2,000 living people
Chinese government denies allegations claiming donors are volunteers "
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Phantom Goods Disguise Billions in China Illicit Money Flows - Bloomberg Business
Phantom Goods Disguise Billions in China Illicit Money Flows - Bloomberg Business: "A steep rise in China’s reported imports from Hong Kong has raised concerns that trade invoices are being manipulated to get capital out of the country amid fears the yuan will continue to weaken. February data released Tuesday show those imports jumped 89 percent from a year earlier, even as total imports fell 14 percent. While the rise wasn’t as great as in January, economists said the spike follows similar patterns in recent months that point to companies using trade channels to pay for goods far in excess of their value or even that don’t exist at all."
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Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Islam in Cambodia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Islam in Cambodia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Like other Muslim Cham people, those in Cambodia are Shia Muslims of the Imami/ Twelver denomination Po Dharma divides the Muslim Cham in Cambodia into a traditionalist branch and an orthodox branch. (see Islam in Vietnam)"
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Tuesday, March 8, 2016
The Trouble With Bright Girls | Psychology Today
The Trouble With Bright Girls | Psychology Today: "She found that bright girls, when given something to learn that was particularly foreign or complex, were quick to give up--and the higher the girls' IQ, the more likely they were to throw in the towel. In fact, the straight-A girls showed the most helpless responses. Bright boys, on the other hand, saw the difficult material as a challenge, and found it energizing. They were more likely to redouble their efforts, rather than give up.
Why does this happen? What makes smart girls more vulnerable, and less confident, when they should be the most confident kids in the room? At the 5th grade level, girls routinely outperform boys in every subject, including math and science. So there were no differences between these boys and girls in ability, nor in past history of success. The only difference was how bright boys and girls interpreted difficulty--what it meant to them when material seemed hard to learn. Bright girls were much quicker to doubt their ability, to lose confidence, and to become less effective learners as a result."
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Why does this happen? What makes smart girls more vulnerable, and less confident, when they should be the most confident kids in the room? At the 5th grade level, girls routinely outperform boys in every subject, including math and science. So there were no differences between these boys and girls in ability, nor in past history of success. The only difference was how bright boys and girls interpreted difficulty--what it meant to them when material seemed hard to learn. Bright girls were much quicker to doubt their ability, to lose confidence, and to become less effective learners as a result."
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Thursday, March 3, 2016
Home flipping reaches 10-year high: What it means - Yahoo Finance
Home flipping reaches 10-year high: What it means - Yahoo Finance: "Rising home prices are bringing more house flippers out of the woodwork, and that may be a sign of an overheating housing market. The number of active home flippers last year was the highest in nearly a decade, and it is only growing.
Nearly 180,000 family homes and condos were flipped in 2015, according to RealtyTrac. A flip is defined as a home that is bought and sold again within the same 12 months. Flips made up 5.5 percent of all sales last year, and that is the first increase in the flip share after four years of shrinking. Flipping increased in 75 percent of U.S. markets, and the profits are growing as well.
"As confidence in the housing recovery spreads, more real estate investors and would-be real estate investors are hopping on the home flipping bandwagon," said Daren Blomquist, senior vice president at RealtyTrac. "Not only is the share of home flips on the rise again, but we also see the flipping trend trickling down to smaller investors who are completing fewer flips per year."
Jim Pinson works with investors to flip houses on the south side of Chicago and does two or three flips of his own each year in the Oak Lawn area. Home prices in Chicago have not soared as much as in other parts of the nation, but there are still a lot of distressed homes available for sale, and plenty of investor demand.
"Oh my God, there are multiple offers on almost every decent margin profit house that pops on the market," said Pinson.
The concern now is that prices are rising too fast, not because buyers can afford to pay more but because of extremely short supply of homes for sale, especially on the lower end of the market. Home prices in January were 6.9 percent higher than the January 2015, according to CoreLogic, a higher annual gain than in December. Home flipping can push prices artificially higher, especially in markets with the tightest inventory.
"When home flipping numbers go up, it is usually an indication that the housing market is in trouble," said Matthew Gardner, chief economist at Windermere Real Estate in Seattle, who was quoted in the RealtyTrac report. "
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Nearly 180,000 family homes and condos were flipped in 2015, according to RealtyTrac. A flip is defined as a home that is bought and sold again within the same 12 months. Flips made up 5.5 percent of all sales last year, and that is the first increase in the flip share after four years of shrinking. Flipping increased in 75 percent of U.S. markets, and the profits are growing as well.
"As confidence in the housing recovery spreads, more real estate investors and would-be real estate investors are hopping on the home flipping bandwagon," said Daren Blomquist, senior vice president at RealtyTrac. "Not only is the share of home flips on the rise again, but we also see the flipping trend trickling down to smaller investors who are completing fewer flips per year."
Jim Pinson works with investors to flip houses on the south side of Chicago and does two or three flips of his own each year in the Oak Lawn area. Home prices in Chicago have not soared as much as in other parts of the nation, but there are still a lot of distressed homes available for sale, and plenty of investor demand.
"Oh my God, there are multiple offers on almost every decent margin profit house that pops on the market," said Pinson.
The concern now is that prices are rising too fast, not because buyers can afford to pay more but because of extremely short supply of homes for sale, especially on the lower end of the market. Home prices in January were 6.9 percent higher than the January 2015, according to CoreLogic, a higher annual gain than in December. Home flipping can push prices artificially higher, especially in markets with the tightest inventory.
"When home flipping numbers go up, it is usually an indication that the housing market is in trouble," said Matthew Gardner, chief economist at Windermere Real Estate in Seattle, who was quoted in the RealtyTrac report. "
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Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Deposits in Najib Bank Accounts Topped $1 Billion, WSJ Says - Bloomberg Business
Deposits in Najib Bank Accounts Topped $1 Billion, WSJ Says - Bloomberg Business: "Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak received more than $1 billion in his private bank accounts between 2011 and 2013, according to the Wall Street Journal.
There was more money in the accounts than the previously known $681 million which appeared before the 2013 general election, the paper reported, citing two people it didn’t identify.
Investigators in two countries believe the $681 million originated from state investment company 1Malaysia Development Bhd.,rather than a personal donation from Saudi Arabia as stated by Malaysian authorities, it said, citing people familiar with the global probes.
The Wall Street Journal didn’t give details on the funds that were deposited in 2011 and 2012. It reported that investigators said two former Abu Dhabi officials helped move the $681 million through complex transactions across several countries before it entered Najib’s accounts."
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There was more money in the accounts than the previously known $681 million which appeared before the 2013 general election, the paper reported, citing two people it didn’t identify.
Investigators in two countries believe the $681 million originated from state investment company 1Malaysia Development Bhd.,rather than a personal donation from Saudi Arabia as stated by Malaysian authorities, it said, citing people familiar with the global probes.
The Wall Street Journal didn’t give details on the funds that were deposited in 2011 and 2012. It reported that investigators said two former Abu Dhabi officials helped move the $681 million through complex transactions across several countries before it entered Najib’s accounts."
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Mahathir Quits Malaysia Ruling Party Citing Najib's Scandals - Bloomberg Business
Mahathir Quits Malaysia Ruling Party Citing Najib's Scandals - Bloomberg Business: ""I am very much ashamed of all that is happening," Mahathir said at a briefing in the administrative capital of Putrajaya. "I decided I cannot be a party to all these things so the least I can do is to leave the party."
Hundreds of millions of dollars were deposited in Najib’s accounts in 2011 and 2012, before the $681 million already known in 2013, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing two people it didn’t identify. Najib’s office would not immediately comment on the report."
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Hundreds of millions of dollars were deposited in Najib’s accounts in 2011 and 2012, before the $681 million already known in 2013, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing two people it didn’t identify. Najib’s office would not immediately comment on the report."
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