Word: whack
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...charge, typically 4.5% to 5.75%, that you pay your broker when you buy. B shares charge nothing when you buy but nick you for as much as 6% if you sell in the first six to eight years. C shares usually charge nothing when you buy or sell but whack you with fat annual fees of nearly 2% the whole time you own them...
...debate rages as to whether housing prices have got out of whack with reality--like Internet stocks four years ago--and are likely to collapse in the next year or two. I'm not convinced. An increase in the rates of immigration and household formation are fueling demand, and the lowest interest rates in 45 years are keeping houses affordable. Even as home prices rose nearly twice as fast as disposable income last year--and mortgage debt surged 13%--total monthly consumer-debt service remained remarkably stable...
...revenues of that land, go to other sources,” Levy said. “They don’t want to see to money come back into the Authority...when they’re trying to balance a budget thats 3 billion dollars out of whack...
...CAMERA is looking to suppress and stifle healthy debate,” said Susan E. Rivo, one of the protesters. “They support the farthest right and are out of whack with American Jews as a whole...
...Indeed, prices keep sliding not simply because supply is out of whack with demand; Hong Kong has lost some of its global competitiveness. In its glory days, the city was the undisputed gateway to China, making it an attractive headquarters location for corporations, a boon to office rents. But with China's ongoing opening to the world, some of that allure has been lost to Shanghai and other Mainland cities. Analysts argue prices became so overheated during the bubble that the decline is actually healthy for the city?and the government should leave well enough alone. "Get the pain...