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...once since the 1960s, when records were first kept, has the nation's median home price declined in a calendar year. There have been plenty of regional busts, as in Texas following the '70s oil boom and in New England during the late '80s. Yet overall, home prices have risen an average 6.3% annually. Part of the appeal is that even when supply and demand turn sour, home economics makes sense. Mortgage interest is deductible, and when they sell their home, a couple can walk away with $500,000 of their gain tax-free...
...loss of value in families' assets," says Jim Molloy, associate director of financial aid at Notre Dame, where spending on need-based financial aid is up 10%. Mark Evans, director of financial aid at Kent State, reports that requests for additional aid because of "special circumstances" have risen...
What makes this economy even more unusual is that productivity has risen through the slump and continues to be strong in the recovery. In every other postwar recession and in the early part of most recoveries, productivity slumped because production dropped faster than employment. This time, companies were quick to shed workers and have been slow to hire them back. Those who have jobs are working harder and more efficiently, with better technology. Productivity, or output per worker, rose 8.3% in the first quarter and 5.5% the quarter before that...
...best ways to make money and reduce risk in today's choppy market is through a classic hedge fund: one that bets on some stocks to go up and others to go down. Since January 2000, when the Dow peaked, hedge funds have risen 13% on average, while the typical stock has fallen 20%, reports Hennessee Group, a hedge-fund tracker. Over the past three years, assets in the 6,000 U.S. hedge funds have more than doubled, to $563 billion...
...arbitrage, pairs trading or specific market sectors. Funds of funds not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (sec) are run much like straight hedge funds. Many have dropped their minimums to $250,000 or less. In this class, Aurora, P&A Diversified and Stellar Partners have each risen more than 50% over the past three years. One advantage with funds of funds is that they have access to the best managers, who charge high minimums. The big drawback is that you pay two layers of fees: one to the fund-of-funds manager, who in turn gets charged...