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There's a pervasive problem in trying to sort out whether there is something intrinsic about homeownership that causes these externalities or whether the people that become homeowners are the kind of people that generate these externalities.


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JAMES BEATTIE Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional ...
JAMES SUROWIECKI I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.
LEBRON JAMES Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the ...
JAMES BUCHAN We have two programs dealing with bulletproof vests, two different systems of actually distributing ...
JAMES LANKFORD For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.
CHERYL JAMES As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to ...
JAMES GLEICK The fact is, an America's Cup team is more than a sailing team. It's anywhere from sort of 8...
JAMES SPITHILL Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which c...
JAMES MADISON They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
JAMES STOCKDALE The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.
JAMES CHILES I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in m...
JAMES LAUGHLIN I have made things for Calvin Klein and other designers, and it's interesting to see the way eac...
JAMES TURRELL