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Pimco's co-chief investment officer Bill Gross tells investors to stay in Treasuries.
In his monthly letter to investors, Gross said now is not the time to jump ship.
"The U.S. economy is not sinking, nor are the majority of global economies," he wrote. "Their markets just had too much risk. In effect, the ship was top heavy with too little ballast. Guess I should have known, huh?"
Pimco's Total Return Fund (PTTRX) is down 4% over the past month -- a major blemish for a fund that's up nearly 7% on an annualized basis over the past five years.
The yield on 10-year Treasuries recently rose to 2.65% -- its highest level since August 2011 -- as investors started worrying about when the Federal Reserve would start pulling back on its bond buying spree.
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Bond investors have been running for lifeboats, ever since Ben Bernanke outlined what would cause the Fed to pare back its bond buying,
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Mortgage rates, Gross noted, have jumped dramatically during the past six months. (Mortgage rates soar). At some point, it will start to be a tough pill to swallow for both prospective and current homeowners.
The Fed is also unlikely to raise interest rates for at least another year or two. It would only do so if unemployment falls to 6.5% and inflation tops 2%. Currently inflation is sitting comfortably around 1% and the unemployment rate is 7.6%.
Still, Gross says investors should ride out the rocky seas.
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It's unlikely that bonds will perform as well as they have over the past 20 to 30 years. Returns will more likely hover between 3% to 5% per year.
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What are We Laughing At?By Alyssa Appelman, University of Missouri I don't think it's any secret that the joke section of this publication is the most widely read feature. The fact that you are even looking at this article is fairly admirable. But why is that the case? Why do we as a society have such a fascination with humor? So I'm going to be honest: I'm not the best person to whom to tell a joke. I find most of them to simply be a reinforcement of stereotypes that contribute to, rather than help to eliminate, racial and ethnic tensions in our society. Standing in a group, laughing at the punch line of a race- or ethnic-based joke is not only insensitive, but also offensive. So why do I find myself writing about humor at all? Because when it comes to Jewish jokes, I have a different mindset. In fact, Jerry Seinfeld's "anti-dentite" comments, Nanny Fine's obsession with rich Mr. Sheffield and Grace Adler's neurosis are all quite entertaining. And I appreciate a good Mel Brooks movie as much as the next guy. But why is that? Why am I offended at jokes about other people, but mildly amused when other people make fun of me? Some might say that I'm just a hypocrite. That I selectively take offense to some stereotypes but laugh at others. But I think there's something more objective and rational to my reactions and I think that many of you probably feel the same way that I do. I have come to the conclusion that humor, like so many other aspects of our society, is a lot about context. Okay, kind of obvious. But as I think about that thin line between humorous and offensive, I try to see the logic, and not the randomness, behind what we find ourselves laughing at. So here it is: Alyssa's 5 Ws and 1 H behind non-offensive humor. What: I'm starting with the "what" to give myself the opportunity to explain how I define "Jewish humor." I'm not talking about jokes mocking religious practices, or distinguishing among the sects, or differentiating Judaism from other religions: That is for another time and another article. In discussing context, I want to focus on the self-deprecating humor employed by Jewish-American comedians. You know, the "Jews are cheap, neurotic, obsessed with marriage and have huge noses" kind of thing.
Who: I think we can all agree that a joke's humor factor is largely based on who tells it. Knowing whether a Jew or a KKK member is making a "So a priest and a rabbi walk into a bar" comment largely determines the way we react to it. There's something about knowing that the creators of Friends are Jewish that helps me to appreciate the "Holiday Armadillo" episode that much more. But I think the "who" is also a matter of "to whom." I don't know about you, but I often feel uncomfortable when jokes are made about other groups of people, and I assume that non-Jews feel the same way about Jewish humor. Where: I think the outlet for a joke is also quite vital. Printing and reprinting depictions of Muhammad in public newspapers is clearly different (and potentially more offensive) than making a comment among friends. Laughing at a joke when you are in the privacy of your home is obviously less harmful than doing so in a diverse crowd. Not to say that laughing at another group's quirks are admirable in private, but just more socially acceptable. How: The tone with which a person tells a particular joke is, at least to me, indicative of their motive and purpose in telling it. I guess I am a little less quick to yell "politically incorrect" if I can tell the joke is really just a joke, and does not have deeper roots. (Although I have a hard time believing that any joke or stereotype does not somehow originate from a more complex prejudice.) When: I think the "when" is absolutely essential in determining whether I laugh or cringe at a joke. I think that most of us feel fairly comfortable being Jews in America right now, and few of us worry about how people are going to react to the depiction of a pushy Jewish mother on television. But if Adam Sandler were singing 60 years ago about the number of Jews in Hollywood, some of us might be more concerned about people's reactions. And the fact that a cartoon depicting Muhammad as a terrorist has arisen in an era of widespread anti-Muslim sentiments makes the outbreaks we see today more understandable. As important as the audience is, I really believe that the timing is everything. So in the end, it's all about context. Understanding humor, like understanding anything else, is based on the historical and social context in which it is discussed. But even if we are cautious, and sensitive, and really just trying to entertain, is it worth it? Is it worth potentially offending and alienating people? And if it isn't, than why do we do it? Why: Maybe the harm in joke-telling is less in the words that we use, but in why we even choose to use them. There's no question that Jews are a minority in America. So are we using humor to make ourselves feel better and less threatened? Or are we so insecure that we have resorted to self-deprecation as our only outlet to vent? Even if you think I'm uptight and that "a joke is just a joke" and I should get over it, when you really start to think about the "why," about why we do what we do and laugh when we laugh, doesn't it seem a little ridiculous? When we make fun of ourselves, doesn't that open the doors for other people to join in? How can we take offense to anti-Semitism, when we are, in fact, making anti-Semitic comments ourselves? So go ahead. Tell your jokes. I will listen. But in the end, is it really all that funny? [Posted 2/23/06] |


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Holidays can be risky times for pets. Among the many things you plan for during holidays, your pet's safety should always be on included. It is disappointing to hear of a friend's pet suffering illness or death during the holiday season. However, it is a story that we hear far too often every holiday season.
Taking the following seven precautions will allow you and your pet to enjoy a merry and bright holiday!
Warn Company - People who don't have pets, and even some who do, don't always know what foods it can or cannot have. If you intend to let your pooch mingle among the crowd let everyone know that food is only to be eaten by humans.
Keep Them Out Of The Fray - -Do your pet a huge favor and keep it safe. Keeping it away from guests also prevents young children, hard-headed children, and hard-headed adults from going against your wishes and doling out food that can range from harmful to deadly.
This also prevents them from running or flying out of the house when guests open the door unexpectedly. Small pets can escape being stepped on.
Keep An Eye On Food - Many holiday foods such as chocolate, snacks high in sugar and salt, nuts, alcohol, avocados and others can be deadly. Pets left unattended for as little as a split second can result in irreversible problems. As horrible as it to lose a pet anytime, it has to be worse during the holidays.
Protect Wires - Most holiday celebrations include decorating with lights. Make sure your wires are protected from sharp teeth, strong claws and insatiable curiosity. Hide them behind furniture, tape them down, or put them in plastic tubing to further insulate them.
Avoid Choking Hazards - There are tons of items that surface during the holidays that can cause potential choking. Things like wire ornament hangers, marbles, broken bits of glass ornaments that go unnoticed on the floor, small toys and other items can be to intriguing for your pet not to explore. Put risky ornaments high on the tree where your pet is unable to reach..
Beware of Plants - Some plants are poisonous to pets and pose a real health threat if ingested. Why risk it? To a pet, pine needles can be hypodermic-like and puncture the intestine while holly lilies can literally be the kiss of death.
But if you must have them, make sure they are kept out of reach, and be vigilant about dead leaves that drop. Be sure to check with a certified nursery about other the safety of any other plants before bringing them into your home.
Limit Access To Christmas Tree Water - Allowing pets to drink tree water is dangerous. Fertilizers and other pesticides may leech into the water and health problems or death when ingested. Stagnant water that sits will contain a high level of bacteria that can also cause problems for pets.
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- Blackstone (BX +0.1%) is clearly at the vanguard of the move, but it's joined by American Homes 4 Rent (AMH +0.5%), American Residential Properties (ARPI +0.1%), Silver Bay Realty Trust (SBY +0.2%), and a unit Colony Financial (CLNY +0.8%).
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- If successful (and why wouldn't it be amid a quest for any sort of yield), it looks to unlock a whole new wave of capital to be deployed into the sector, not just for Blackstone, but for single-family rental shops like American Homes 4 Rent (AMH +1%), Silver Bay (SBY -0.2%), American Residential Properties (ARPI +0.4%).
- "We're rooting for them," says Richard Saltzman, CEO of Colony Capital (CLNY +1.1%), whose spin-off of its single-family rental unit - Colony American Homes - was dropped this summer amid the dive in REIT prices.
- Back to the Blackstone offering ... There are 3,207 homes whose rents back the paper, with 1,365 of them in Phoenix, about 900 in three different CA cities, 325 in Atlanta, and 257 in Tampa. The ratings on the different tranches range from AAA to junk.
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- Wells Fargo initiates with a Hold, believing the company can continue to acquire homes accretively and at below market prices (they make it sound so easy). "However, we believe uncertainties remain in this relatively new market."
- Also rating the company a Buy is JPMorgan.
- Credit Suisse and Bank of America add their names to the Hold contingent.
- Previous: AMH cuts 15% of staff and will slow acquisition activity.
- Interested onlookers will be shareholders of SBY, ARPI, and BX, not to mention Colony Capital (CLNY), which postponed its IPO of Colony American Homes (CAHS) this summer.
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Tuesday, Jun 182013, 1:10 PMColony American Home pulled its IPO this month because of a collapse in equity REIT prices, says Colony Financial (CLNY) Chairman Tom Barrack, appearing on CNBC. "We don't need the capital," he adds. An owner of mortgage insurers Radian (RDN) and MGIC (MTG), and Fannie Mae (FNMA.OB) preferred, Barrack calls them a great a way in H2 to play the housing comeback. Note: FNMA.OB is the symbol for the common. |Tuesday, Jun 182013, 1:10 PM| Comment!
Wednesday, Jun 52013, 7:37 AMTurning single-family rentals from a mom-and-pop business into a Wall Street operation sounds like a good idea, but investor dollars say differently. Colony American Homes (CAHS, a spinoff of CLNY) postpones its IPO citing market conditions, reports the WSJ. The move comes amid the weak performance of recent IPOs American Residential Properties (ARPI) and Silver Bay Realty (SBY). |Wednesday, Jun 52013, 7:37 AM| 2 Comments


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suns decline quickly as do the cavs. cavs are rebuilding and would not want jax. suns would want diaw but have no interest in turning a $17 million expiring into diaw and diop and anthony parker.
Bobcats trade: Stephen Jackson, Boris Diaw, Matt Carroll, Gana Diop
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Suns get: Boris Diaw, Gana Diop, Anthony Parker
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Why for the Cavs: Jackson is a little bit younger then Jamison. He probably has a few more years before he declines as a player and Jackson is under contract for a few more years so they don't have to worry about him leaving for greener pastures. If they Cavs draft a nice rookie having Jackson around could help them be competitive sooner rather then later. Matt Carroll has a bad contract but it is small enough that it doesn't hurt the Cavs salary situation.
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I posted this on real gm in the trade thread also. What do you guys think of this deal? Clears a ton of cap room for us by the summer of Dwight.
suns decline quickly as do the cavs. cavs are rebuilding and would not want jax. suns would want diaw but have no interest in turning a $17 million expiring into diaw and diop and anthony parker.
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Video: #SwitchToLumia – Nokia India and Nokia Lumia 920 – Good Promos
Here are a couple of very interesting promos from Nokia India. I like them because whilst being ads, they're also teaching the audience how to use features in the Nokia Lumia 920, whilst showing them in "real life" scenarios which the audience can empathise and connect with.
Oh dear gosh, FINALLY, someone at Nokia is beginning to understand this. Good job guys!
It's not the flashiest, and there's definitely much room for improvement (how to make it memorable for one) it's a whole lot better than the vague arty-farty stuff.
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Nokia sells two Finnish properties for $41m:
And rents them back. BTW nothing too good about the promos though.
the funny part is ; these ads barely cost them anything to produce..
i know asha is doing great, but im wondering how well the lumia family is doing in India, nokia's primary market
Doing pretty good after the 920/510/610 arrived. The 800/710 weren't pretty good sellers though.
Nice. Show why they are so much better that Androids.
The 510/610 ARE better in every way when compared to similar cost droids.
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Dr. Greg Guelcher, associate professor of history and political science at Morningside College, and Morningside senior Joseph Maffit attended the 49th annual Missouri Valley History Conference held March 2-4 at the Embassy Suites in Omaha, Neb.
Guelcher served as chair of the session "Western Intrusions in Central Asia and the Middle East," one of 45 different sessions that included presentations by scholars and students from academic and research institutions in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.
Maffit presented his paper titled "The Strategy of Retreat: A Comparative Analysis of George Washington's Campaigns of 1776-77 and Nathanael Greene's Campaigns of 1780-81" during the "Military Education" session. The paper sought to explain the military strategies utilized by Greene and Washington during the American Revolution.
Guelcher joined Morningside's faculty in 1996 and teaches world, Asian, and Middle Eastern history, imperialism, and Vietnam history. He received his bachelor's degree from the College of Wooster, Ohio, and a master's degree and doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Maffit, from Salix, Iowa, is majoring in history at Morningside. He is a graduate of Sergeant Bluff-Luton High School.
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Support Local Control of Education - Get Missouri Out Of Common Core
We reject the Federal Government's intrusion into our education system and want control over what is taught in our classroom returned to our state and local school boards.
• Common Core removes control of our state k-12 education standards from Missouri and puts it in the hands of private trade organizations who wrote and copyrighted the standards and who are not accountable to the public which pays for their implementation.
• It allows the federal government to dictate the terms of our teacher evaluations.
• It makes it practically impossible for local school districts to control their costs because independent consortia develop assessment tools which our districts must use. These on-line assessments are not only many times more expensive than our existing MAP tests, they are a technical impossibility for many schools in our state who do not have broadband access to the internet.
• Common Core Standards are not internationally benchmarked as marketed, nor have they been tested and found to be superior to existing state standards. They have never been tried before. Their implementation in 45 states amounts to a massive pilot program that uses our children as test subjects.
• Common Core assessments ramp up the collection of personally identifiable data on our children. Through various agreements this data will be sent directly to the US Department of Education who has changed the Family Education Rights Privacy Act (FERPA) to allow this data to be shared with other government agencies and third parties without our knowledge or consent.
• The architect of the Common Core Standards has vowed to align the SAT tests to these standards thereby pressuring homeschoolers and private schools to teach to these standards as well. Millions of children will be lost inside a one size fits all system designed to create equal mediocrity among the new "global citizens."
Missouri's legislature has already produced and introduced a bill. At this point, I have not ready it, but will.
As I talked to my legislator last week, he was NOT in favor of CC, but was not sure he would support this new legislation...I need to put my hand on all the material I can that
specifically indicates why it should not be a part of a schools curriculum, not just antidotal data that parents don't like the home work ie, comparisons between NCLB, assesssments, NCLB was also top down...for 14 years and what makes this "top down" worse/
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I reject Common Core on the grounds that it is government controlled and not locally controlled. Our children's education will not be superior. They will be dumbed down to meet Common Core standards that have not been tested or tried before.
Julie Moppin
Please America Wake Up and smell the roses!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Common Core Education STINKS! We have lost our freedom of education if we accept this ! Last I knew this Country was founded on Freedom.
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I've read all through the 20K site when I've had time over the past few days. I know a lot of it's a bit dated, but I especially LOVED the interviews! It VERY much reminds me of my job at a local go-cart track when I was in HS back in 78-80. We were an all male crew as well, and the stories of practical jokes, "914's", crazies, etc. I could tell is makin' me just thinkin' about it...!
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