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Volume 24, Number 6
June 2004
Mistaken Identity
By Art Carden
It is always the fashion among many intellectuals to blame society's ills on the free market. One college newspaper recently argued that the market is "The God That Sucked." The course summaries in my university's catalog, the themes of the lecture series, and the editorial content of the student newspapers suggest that many students and faculty would agree.
Popular contempt for the market is distressing. Few institutions are so universally reviled, and perhaps fewer institutions are so universally misunderstood. This misunderstanding can be dangerous: the radicals who protest so vehemently against the workings of the free market rarely understand that they advocate strangling the goose that lays the golden eggs.
To borrow from Robert Frost, we should consider how the heavens go before we try to change the world. In other words, we must consider what is before we talk about what ought to be.
Many disagreements have their genesis in misunderstanding and equivocation. So let's define the term "free market." Dictionary.com defines a "market" as "an opportunity to buy or sell" and a "free market" as "an economic market in which supply and demand are not regulated or are regulated with only minor restrictions." "Free markets" and "capitalism" are practically synonymous, and George Reisman defines capitalism eloquently:
"Capitalism is a social system based on private ownership of the means of production. It is characterized by the pursuit of material self-interest under freedom and it rests on a foundation of the cultural influence of reason. Based on its foundations and essential nature, capitalism is further characterized by saving and capital accumulation, exchange and money, financial self-interest and the profit motive, the freedoms of economic competition and economic inequality, the price system, economic progress, and a harmony of the material self-interests of all the individuals who participate in it."
Thus, we can define a "free market" as a social system based on the voluntary exchange of property rights. And yet the "free market" is almost universally reviled within the academy.
Many popular criticisms of the market are so common as to warrant the charge of cliché (critics of capitalism might say "axiom"). They can be distilled into a few broad propositions, which we consider here. They are: the market is antisocial; the market tramples human rights; the market is the enemy of the environment; and the market is the weapon of the rich against the poor. Let's consider each in turn.
One of the more popular myths about the market economy is that it necessarily entails a Hobbesian "war of all against all," a man-eat-man world in which we all compete in a zero-sum scramble for resources. A recent op-ed in the Washington University Student Life posited that the "apocryphal idea of [the market's] reality . . . may lead the entire species to self destruction." That's scary stuff. It follows, then, that the market must be warlike: if resources are finite and everyone lives to consume, conflict—and war—must be the natural result.
But conflict and war are the very antithesis of free-market principles. The essence of market exchange is cooperation: two parties exchange goods and services, and both are enriched as a result. You pay Wal-Mart for a necktie. Wal-Mart buys the necktie from the manufacturer. The manufacturer pays for the labor and capital necessary to produce the necktie. Everybody wins.
The reader should also note that people never start wars of subjugation to extend the voluntary exchange of goods and services. In fact, many wars occur for fundamentally anticapitalist reasons: namely, trade disputes. We would do well to consider the wisdom of Frédéric Bastiat, who noted that when goods don't cross borders, armies will.
Another popular criticism of the free market is that it tramples human rights. Slavery, racism, sexism, and "sweatshops" are the children of capitalism; therefore, the market economy should be overthrown post haste.
First, slavery is anti-market by definition: free markets are guided by the principle of voluntarism. Second, racism and sexism are difficult to sustain in competitive markets: no matter how much a certain employer hates blacks, women, Jews, homosexuals, etc., consumers are rarely willing to pay the price premium that would be necessary to allow them to indulge their taste for discrimination. The market has been profoundly benevolent to even the most oppressed minorities. In his masterful Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American Economy 1865–1914, Robert Higgs chronicled the spectacular gains the sons and daughters of slaves made when they were allowed to participate in the market economy.
Third, we have to ask two questions when we consider the plight of "sweatshop" laborers. First, why are working conditions so wretched? Second, what are these workers' next best alternatives? Working conditions in the third world are wretched precisely because many third-world countries have only recently begun to adopt the institutions that characterize the market economies of the west. Workers' next best alternatives are often appalling: many children leave lives of crime, prostitution, and starvation to work in sweatshops.
If we close the sweatshops, they will likely return to crime, prostitution, and starvation.
It is also popular to charge that the market is the enemy of the environment. This is also untrue; environmental degradation occurs when property rights are poorly specified or enforced. If anyone or anything has failed in this respect, it is the state. There is ample evidence for this in former communist countries: many lakes and streams in the former Soviet Union are so polluted as to be unusable.
The market economy is also accused of being the ultimate weapon of rich against poor. Capitalist "meritocracy" is responsible for widespread poverty, rampant inequality, and Big Business' choke-hold on the world. While these challenges to capitalist institutions make for intriguing rhetoric, they are also false.
Today's poor countries were poor long before modern liberal market economies developed in Europe and North America; therefore, we cannot blame capitalism for poverty. Many critics also point to the unequal distribution of wealth in the United States as evidence of capitalism's evils, but this overlooks two crucial points.
The first is income mobility: someone born into poverty in the US stands a very good chance of moving up in the world. Second, while the distribution of money incomes is relatively unequal, the distribution of access to goods of similar technological composition has narrowed considerably. For most of world history, the difference between rich and poor was the difference between who ate and who starved. In today's market econ-omies, the difference between the super-rich and the poor is the difference between who drives a Dodge Viper and who drives an '87 Chevy Cavalier.
The reader should note that the power of "big business" is overstated. A unique feature of capitalism is that the greatest rewards go to those who cater to the common man. Consider Wal-Mart, a favorite whipping boy among left-wing intellectuals: Wal-Mart's clientele consists almost exclusively of the middle- and lower-class. Capitalism generates fantastic wealth, and the benefits accrue almost entirely to the least of these among us.
Ludwig von Mises put it succinctly in a series of lectures which were published posthumously as Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow. He notes that "this is the fundamental principle of capitalism as it exists today in all those countries in which there is a highly developed system of mass production: Big business . . . produces almost exclusively to satisfy the wants of the masses." The "power relationship" of which Marxists are so fond is precisely the opposite of that which is most often supposed: consumers, not producers, are the masters of the dance.
Nonetheless, enemies of the market argue that the only reason people put up with market economies is because they are forced to. The evidence of twentieth-century immigration doesn't support the hypothesis. Thousands died trying to cross into free West Germany and South Korea, and there was very little traffic in the opposite direction. Similarly, thousands of Cubans have risked life and limb to come to America. Few—if any—have braved the ocean on a homemade raft to seek a better way of life in Cuba.
Finally, it is deficient scholarship to merely point out the litany of crimes that the market (supposedly) commits and suggest that it has "failed" in any meaningful way. One must propose a superior alternative. In this case, both theory and history are firmly on the side of the free market. Mises and Hayek demonstrated that rational calculation is impossible without private ownership of the means of production. This isn't to say that a "socialist economy" is inefficient—it is quite literally an oxymoron. Our experience with radical revolutions and planned economies in the twentieth century is hardly encouraging: in the name of "the people," Che Guevara killed thousands, Hitler millions, Stalin and Mao tens of millions.
It may be fashionable to blame the market economy for all of society's ills, but this blame is undeserved and many scholars' faith in alternatives to the market is misplaced. No socialist regime has ever held a free election, and no free market has ever produced a death camp. Popular academic opinions to the contrary, the market works. And we can take that to the bank.
Art Carden is a graduate student in economics at Washington University in St. Louis (firstname.lastname@example.com).


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John Schwenkler organized a discussion on this hot topic, featuring posts by
– Dan Benjamin, Jim Berger, Magnus Johannesson, Valen Johnson, Brian Nosek, and E. J. Wagenmakers
– Felipe De Brigard
– Kenny Easwaran
– Andrew Gelman and Blake McShane
– Kiley Hamlin
– Edouard Machery
– Deborah Mayo
– "Neuroskeptic"
– Michael Strevens
– Kevin Zollman.
Many of the commenters have interesting things to say, and I recommend you read the entire discussion.
The one point that I think many of the discussants are missing, though, is the importance of design and measurement. For example, Benjamin et al. write, "Compared to using the old 0.05 threshold, maintaining the same level of statistical power requires increasing sample sizes by about 70%." I'm not disputing the math, but I think that sort of statement paints much too optimistic a picture. Existing junk science such as himmicanes and air rage, or ovulation and voting and clothing, or the various fmri and gay-gene studies that appear regularly in the news, will not be saved by increasing sample size by 70% or 700%. Larger sample size might enable researchers to more easily reach those otherwise elusive low p-values but I don't see this increasing our reproducible scientific knowledge. Along those likes, Kiley Hamlin recommends going straight to full replications, which would have the advantage of giving researchers a predictive target to aim at. I like the idea of replication, rather than p-values, being a goal. On the other hand, again, p-values are noisy, and none of this is worth anything if measurements are no good.
So one thing I wish more of the discussants had talked about is that, when applied to junk science—and all of this discussion is in large part the result of the cancerous growth of junk science within the scientific enterprise—the effect of new rules on p-values etc. will be indirect. Requiring p less than 0.005, or requiring Bayes factors, abandoning statistical significance entirely, or anything in between: none of these policies will turn work such as power pose or beauty-and-sex-ratio or the work of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab into reproducible science. All it will do is possibly (a) make such work harder to publish as is, and (b) as a consequence of that first point, motivate researchers to better science, to design more targeted studies with better measurements so as to be able to succeed in the future.
It's good goal to aim for (a) and (b), so I'm glad of all this discussion. But I think it's important to emphasize that all the statistical analysis and statistical rule-giving in the world can't transform bad data into good science. So I'm a bit concerned about messages implying that with a mere increase of sample size by a factor of 1.7 or 2, that reproducibility problems will be solved. At some point, good science requires good design and measurement.
There's an analogy to approaches to education reform that push toward high standards, toward not letting students graduate unless their test scores reach some high threshold. Ending "social promotion" from grade to grade in school might be a good idea in itself, and in the right environment it might motivate students to try harder at learning and schools to try harder at teaching—but, by themselves, standards are just an indirect tool. At some point the learning has to happen. This analogy is not perfect—for one thing, a p-value is not a measure of effect size, and null hypothesis significance testing addresses an uninteresting model of zero effect and zero systematic error, kind of like if an educational test did not even attempt to measure mastery, instead merely trying to demonstrate that the amount learned was not exactly zero—but my point in the present post is to emphasize the essentially indirect nature of any procedural solutions to research problems.
Again we can consider that hypothetical study attempting to measure the speed of light by using a kitchen scale to weighing an object before and after it is burned: it doesn't matter what p-value is required, this experiment will never allow us to measure the speed of light. The best we can do with rules is to make it more difficult and awkward to claim that such a study can give definitive results, and thus dis-incentivize people from trying to perform, publish, and promote such work. Substitute ESP or power pose or fat arms and voting or himmicanes etc. in the above sentences and you'll get the picture.
As Blake and I wrote in the conclusion of our contribution to the above-linked discussion:
Looking forward, we think more work is needed in designing experiments and taking measurements that are more precise and more closely tied to theory/constructs, doing within-person comparisons as much as possible, and using models that harness prior information, that feature varying treatment effects, and that are multilevel or meta-analytic in nature, and—of course—tying this to realism in experimental conditions.
See here and here for more on this topic which we are blogging to death. I appreciate the comments we've had here from people who disagree with me on these issues: a blog comment thread is a great place to have a discussion back and forth involving multiple viewpoints.


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NEW YORK (CBS 2) — There was a demand Friday from angry residents in Park Slope. They want Mayor Michael Bloomberg to stop focusing on bike lanes and do something about a dangerous intersection.
A horrific crash happened on Wednesday; another happened on Thursday. A white van carrying young girls — 8 to 10 years old — headed to day camp was hit broadside by a tractor trailer. Bloodied kids were seen rushing from the van after the crash.
"They were cut, bruised, one girl was bleeding profusely from the head. Her head was all cut open. They were scared, shaken. They had glass in their hair, glass in their eyes," Park Slope businessman Eric Nocera told CBS 2's Marcia Kramer on Friday.
Nocera owns a body shop on the corner of 17th Street and Third Avenue in Park Slope. It's a dangerous, heavily trafficked corner. For years accidents have been the norm. He and his neighbors are frustrated at trying — without success — to get the city Department of Transportation to fix it.
"I'm very angry. I'm livid. How is that possible for so many years to let go? It shouldn't be. It's just wrong, so wrong, and nobody seems to care enough to do something about it," said Donna Maxil, president of the 72nd Precinct Council and Park Slope resident.
"Something bad's going to happen. Someone's going to die," Nocera added.
"You have a lot of kids here, a lot of traffic and nobody wants to do anything about it," resident Yehya Alsahqani said.
All the residents want is a turn signal so when drivers make the turn they don't have to do it into oncoming traffic, but they said when they call the DOT they're told there aren't enough accidents to justify the move.
Kramer: "So when the city says there aren't enough accidents to justify a turn signal what's your reaction?"
Nocera: "My reaction is I have them on video and I have the proof to show there's plenty of accidents and they're serious accidents. Someone's going to die. Instead of worrying about putting bike lanes throughout the city, let's worry about making our intersections safe for the people."
Just for the record, Nocera does have the video. His security camera has caught dozens of accidents, Kramer reported.
The DOT said it will review the intersection and any requests it gets from the community. Officials did recently re-do the intersection. A turn sign was not installed, but trees that make it harder to see oncoming traffic were put in place.
The department now claims there are plans for a left-hand turn signal.
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Enrichment ProgramsThere are a variety of enrichment activities made available by Stratford and/or Baylake's Before and After School Program. All leaders of enrichment activities are required to have Criminal Checks through the State Police, and Central Registry Checks through the Department of Social Services, as well as provide a signed sworn affirmation and a negative TB Test. Registration and payments are made directly to the individual enrichment activity.
Little People's Creative Workshop
- 45 minute class each week, designed to give Boys and Girls a chance to experience music, dance, theatre, and physical fitness in a fun and loving atmosphere among their friends.
- $20.00 registration fee
- $49.00 monthly tuition fee due the 1st of each month
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Little Lotus Yoga
The Little Lotus Yoga curriculum is designed to introduce children to the fun and health benefits of yoga. Yoga poses, breathing exercises and meditation are guided through songs, storytelling and games that nurture young imaginations.
Cost: $140.00/14 classes plus $35.00 annual registration fee (which includes child-sized yoga mat)
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Computer Adventures
Your child will explore the world of technology as they are taught practical computer literacy skills at a basic level.
Students will create fun, age-appropriate projects that encompass word processing, spreadsheet, database, desktop publishing, and multimedia skills. Younger students will focus on projects that reinforce the learning of shapes, numbers, letters, and colors.
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Press Release: Shopadvisor and Elle Proximity Marketing Initiative Delivers Record Results
NEW YORK and CONCORD, Mass, November 10, 2015 — ELLE Magazine and ShopAdvisor today announced the results of the Shop Now With ELLE! proximity mobile marketing program. Launched in August in conjunction with the 30th anniversary September issue of ELLE, the program connected consumers to their favorite brands and provided them with exclusive content and offers using location-based mobile technology, including beacons and geo-fences. The program, which included retail brand advertising partners Vince Camuto, Levi's®, GUESS, and a strategic partnership with Barnes & Noble, spanned more than 800 locations across the country and reached nearly a half million shoppers. In just five weeks the program resulted in 106 times more shoppers visiting a participating store, compared to typical mobile advertising programs.
"The in-market success of our Shop Now! program exceeded our expectations, and also achieved one of our major goals—to activate an initiative that would be a retail traffic-driver for our brand partners," said Kevin O'Malley, SVP/Publisher of ELLE. "This unique first-to-market opportunity to merge ELLE's fashion authority with location-based mobile technology to inspire and inform the consumer when in market is a great example of the growing intersection between fashion/retail/tech and its consumer impact."
Mobile Proximity Marketing that Works
ELLE is the first media brand to leverage this technology to send active, in-market shoppers mobile messages from participating brand partners when they are within range of the store nearest to them. This curated and custom shopping experience was created in coordination with the ShopAdvisor app—a personal shopping concierge that engages consumers through omni-channel content—and ShopAdvisor utilized Gimbal's location-based mobile engagement platform to power the geo-fence portion of their campaign. ShopAdivsor's data analytics capabilities filters user purchase intent and proximity information to provide shoppers with offers and information that is tuned specifically to their interests.
Research published in the 2015 Magazine Media Fact Book shows that magazine media continues to have major influence on readers product preferences. Additionally, a 2014 Deloitte Consulting study revealed that 84% of store visitors use their mobile devices in advance of or during their shopping trips. As a result, there is profound change in shopping behavior being driven by smartphones, which is magnified by the efficacy of mobile marketing programs. The results of the Shop Now! With ELLE program and the pairing of custom content pushed directly to consumers in proximity to their favorite stores illustrates this point clearly, and sets a new bar for the industry.
"The Shop Now! With ELLE program proves the vast potential of providing premium native content at the right frequency at the right location," said Scott Cooper, Founder and President of ShopAdvisor. "The key to the success of the program is in the combination of influential content from a top magazine with promotional offers from top retailers, and a deep understanding of when & how to deliver messaging to the consumer. The ShopAdvisor platform has been developed specifically for this purpose and our partners leverage it well. We are thrilled with these results and look forward to further engagement with ELLE and its partners."
Consumers can download the free ShopAdvisor mobile app from iTunes or Google Play for iOS or Android, or by visiting ShopAdvisor.com.
ShopAdvisor, Inc. bridges the gap between web commerce, proximity, and retail. ShopAdvisor's mobile proximity platform, data sciences and easy to use app deliver a personal shopping concierge for consumers that advises on when, where, and what to shop. Shoppers can save items they love and be alerted when the time to buy is right, saving time and money. ShopAdvisor works with more than 30 media publishers, including Cosmopolitan, People StyleWatch, Marie Claire, Men's Health, Cooking Light, Real Simple, and many more to allow shoppers to shop directly from the publishers' omni-channel content. Consumers can download the free ShopAdvisor mobile app for their iOS or Android device, or go to ShopAdvisor.com.
ELLE is the No. 1 fashion magazine brand in the world, with 46 editions, 34 websites, and more than 158 supplements worldwide. The ELLE US brand reaches more than 28 million readers, users, fans and followers every month who find in ELLE a rich mix of fashion, beauty and culture that invites the reader to discover their personal style. ELLE is also the foundation of numerous brand extensions, including ELLE Décor (25 editions), ELLE à table (4 editions), and ELLEgirl (3 editions). ELLE is owned by the Lagardere Active group (France), and ELLE US is published by Hearst Magazines, a unit of Hearst Corporation, one of the nation's largest diversified media and information companies. With 21 titles in the U.S., Hearst is the leading publisher of monthly magazines reaching nearly 81 million readers in print (Fall 2014 MRI gfk) and nearly 44 million site visitors each month (comScore). For more information visit ELLE.com, or follow ELLE on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr.


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Experiencing A San Tan Valley Fire Damage Dry-Out Issue?
A fire will probably change your life in various ways that you can not think of. Having an idea of where to begin as well as who can aid you is important. Our company hopes you find the following information and facts useful in navigating the tasks you will need to accomplish as a result of the fire.
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Just What To Expect
A fire in a home, regardless of whether you reside in an apartment, a single family, or multiple family house, can cause serious damage. The structure and numerous of the items in your home may have been severely ruined by heat, flames, smoke, and water.
You will most likely find that things the fire didn't burn up are now made a mess of through smoke and saturated with water used to extinguish the flames. Most things you intend to keep or re-use will need to be thoroughly cleaned.
The firemen may have ripped holes in the wall surfaces of the building to look for any hidden flames. They may also have cut holes to the roof to let out the smoke and heat. Cleanup will take some time and persistence.
If your house had a fire fire-extinguishing system, you may find limited destruction from flames, the heat, smoke, and water. Otherwise, and you want to rebuild your house, now is the perfect time to consider installing sprinklers into your home. Talk with the land lord about it when you are renting there. You can easily get even more information and facts at the Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition's website: http://www.hfsc.org
Use Discretion
It is important to know the danger to your health and safety even after the fire is put-out. The soot and dirty water left behind could contain things that might make you ill.
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Be sure to be extremely careful when you enter into your residence and if you touch any fire-damaged things. Seek the guidance of the fire department, local San Tan Valley building official, your insurance broker, and restoration service providers before beginning to clean or make repairs.
Routinely Asked Questions Concerning Fire Department Actions
Q. Why do fire fighters chop openings in wall surfaces?
A. This is done so the firemen are sure that the fire is completely extinguished and also at this time there is no fire left within the wall surfaces or in additional undetected spots.
Q. Why did they have to break windows and axe holes in the roofing?
A. As a fire burns, it moves up and down and across, developing quite rapidly. Breaking windows and cutting notches in the roof is called ventilation. It stalls the fire's expansion. It serves to help eliminate dark smoke which makes it laborious for firemen to know where exactly they are going. It assists them to battle the fire faster. Ultimately, ventilation is able to help save lives & property.
Q. How do I obtain a reprint of the fire report?
A. In most regions, a fire report is a public form. Ask for it at the fire department or fire marshall's office. The fire report will likely assist you together with related information in which your insurance agency and some other official offices may ask for.
Exactly What Should I Do At This Time?
Attend To You And Your Family
Call your community disaster relief provider, which include the American Red Cross or the Salvation Army. They are going to help your family select a location to stay for awhile and locate cuisine, clothes, medicine, along with additional important items. See to it you get a good location to live temporarily. You and your family have a major project ahead of you. Get lots of rest and get help. Do not try to undertake everything on your own.
Do not eat, drink, or breathe anything which has been near the fire's flames, smoke, soot, or water used to extinguish the fire.
Aid Your Family's Pets
If you have animals, locate these and soothe them. Scared animals commonly act in response by biting and scratching. Grasp these cautiously, calmly, and gently. Make an effort to leave household pets with a member of the family, close friend, or animal medical practitioner in case you are visiting or cleaning your damaged residence.
Always keep your household pets away from your home till the clean-up is concluded to keep them protected.
Security And Well Being
You should not go into a damaged home or apartment unless the fire department states that it is safe and sound to go in. Fires could begin once again though they look to be out. Keep eyes open for destruction triggered by the fire. Roof structures and floors may perhaps be wrecked and may collapse down.
Your fire department will ensure that the utilities (water, electrical, and gas) are good to make use of. In the case that they are not safe, firemen will likely disconnect them before they depart the location. Do not make an attempt to turn them back on .
Contact your San Tan Valley police department to let them know you will be away from your home. In some cases, you may likely want to board up entrances, so nobody will enter when you are not at the house.
Contact Your Insurance Representative
Get in touch with your insurance provider or agent without delay. Ask what to do about the urgent requirements of your house. This entails draining water and taking care of doors, windows, and other gaps.
Consult with your insurance agent exactly what they need you to work on first. Some companies may ask you to compile a list of all the things that was damaged by the fire. The agent will probably ask you to detail these thoroughly and say the amount of money you spent for the items.
In the case that you do not have insurance, your loved ones and community may perhaps assist you get back on your feet. Some agencies that might assist include:
- American Red Cross
- Community Groups
- Public Agencies, Such As The Public Health Department, etc.
- State Or Municipal Emergency Services Office
- Religious Organizations
- Nonprofit Crisis-Counseling Centers.
- Salvation Army
Financial Situations
Get in touch with your property owner or home mortgage lending institution as quickly as feasible. Call your credit card provider to report credit cards lost in the fire and ask for replacements. Collect all receipts for any cash you shell out. These receipts are important in presenting to the insurance provider exactly what money you have actually spent involving your fire situation. This definitely will help confirm you bought items you may plan to claim on your income tax forms.
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Suggestions On Effective Ways To Deal With The Damage
There are providers that are experts in clean-up and/or restoring your personal belongings.
Whether you or your insurance provider buys this kind of service, be certain on who will fund it. Make sure to request an estimation of expense for the project and agree to it in writing. You will locate the names and phone numbers for service companies that do this job in the telephone directory and on the Internet, or ask your insurance broker for a provider they have utilized.
Before you select the business, talk with someone else who has utilized them to make certain they did the job right.
Some providers that claim to provide board up and cleaning services are not completely honest. Consult with your insurance agent for names of contractors you are able to rely on to do a reliable job at a reasonable price.
These kinds of companies furnish services that include some or all of the following :
- Employing the services of cleaning or repair subcontractors.
- Approximating the charge to fix or renew objects of personal possessions.
- Storing restored items until needed.
- Protecting your residence against further damage.
- Estimating damage.
- Housing household items.
- Patching up damage.
The Beginning Days For Recovery
The Market Value Of Your Residence & Personal Belongings
Speak with your insurance provider pertaining to effective ways to figure out the market value of your house and property.
Restoring Important Forms And Documentation
You will certainly need to replace several of the following documents damaged or displaced in the fire:
- Citizenship paperworks
- Military discharge records
- Pet registration papers
- Divorce papers
- Medical records
- Driver's licence, auto registration
- Prepaid entombment arrangement
- Wills
- Income tax files
- Social Security or Medicare cards
- Travel permits
- Bank-books (checking, savings, etc.)
- Birth, death, and marriage certifications
- Titles to deeds
- Credit cards
- Service warranties
- Insurance plans
- Property loan documentations.
- Stocks and bonds
Exchanging Money
Handle burnt paper bills as little as possible. Try to place each and every bill or part of a bill in plastic wrap to assist preserve it. If money is partly burned (if half or more is currently okay) you may take the portion that is left to your local Federal Reserve Bank in order to get it replaced. Ask your financial institution with regard to the one closest to you, or you can take the burned or torn bills to the Post Office and mail it by registered mail, return receipt requested to:
Department of the Treasury Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Office of Currency Standards
P.O. Box 37048
Washington, DC 20013
Damaged or melted coins might be carried to your regional Federal Reserve Bank or mailed by registered mail, return receipt requested to:
Superintendent U.S. Mint
P.O. Box 400
Philadelphia, PA 19105
To replace U.S. Savings Bonds that are torn up or mutilated, get the Department of Treasury Form PD F 1048 (I) from your bank or at: www.ustreas.gov and mail to:
Department of the Treasury
Bureau of the Public Debt
Savings Bonds Operations
P.O. Box 1328
Parkersburg, WV 26106-1328
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Scottsdale, Glendale, Rio Verde, Fountain Hills, San Tan Valley, Paradise Valley, Cashion, Avondale, Queen Creek, Laveen, Fort Mcdowell, Higley, Bapchule, Maricopa, Peoria, Tempe, Mesa, Cave Creek, Chandler Heights, Apache Junction, Phoenix, Chandler, Sun City West, Sacaton, Tolleson, Carefree, Gilbert, Sun City, Gold Canyon
Here below are other zipcodes of towns that our crew services:
85038, 85351, 85026, , 85005, 85226, 85255, 85097, 85020, 85286, 85118, 85061, 85071, 85039, 85263, 85204, 85010, 85078, 85060, 85032, 85302, 85258, 85301, 85251, 85208, 85297, 85001, 85284, 85211, 85274, 85044, 85065, 85308, 85079, 85003, 85017, 85080, 85072, 85069, 85011, 85045, 85004, 85249, 85329, 85305, 85246, 85287, 85083, 85264, 85073, 85206, 85008, 85281, 85269, 85064, 85048, 85236, 85252, 85006, 85075, 85063, 85372, 85244, 85307, 85012, 85261, 85382, 85233, 85019, 85296, 85282, 85280, 85214, 85140, 85306, 85030, 85013, 85268, 85014, 85002, 85203, 85040, 85007, 85212, 85028, 85260, 85066, 85234, 85076, 85377, 85376, 85036, 85205, 85037, 85216, 85209, 85143, 85027, 85392, 85046, 85042, 85213, 85266, 85207, 85271, 85225, 85345, 85277, 85312, 85327, 85021, 85147, 85031, 85303, 85353, 85257, 85043, 85331, 85210, 85298, 85074, 85053, 85299, 85310, 85215, 85385, 85259, 85068, 85119, 85029, 85018, 85120, 85304, 85250, 85295, 85121, 85248, 85050, 85311, 85142, 85381, 85098, 85051, 85138, 85025, 85202, 85318, 85178, 85067, 85339, 85224, 85117, 85256, 85262, 85034, 85254, 85253, 85082, 85283, 85201, 85085, 85033, 85275, 85024, 85070, 85009, 85023, 85380, 85015, 85323, 85035, 85016, 85062, 85285, 85127, 85022, 85041, 85267, 85054