Housing Subsidies for the Poor Threatened by Cuts in U.S. Aid

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Housing Subsidies for Poor Threatened by
Aid Cuts

Housing Subsidies for Poor Threatened by
Aid Cuts 05/04/2004 12:26 PM
The possible loss is a result of a recent regulatory change which affects the government's primary housing program for poor Americans.

U.S. Seeks Cuts in Housing Aid to Urban
Poor

U.S. Seeks Cuts in Housing Aid to Urban
Poor 09/22/2004 04:27 AM
The Bush administration has proposed reducing the value of subsidized-housing vouchers in New York City and some urban areas of New England.

BMC apologizes for poor Q4 with massive
job cuts

BMC apologizes for poor Q4 with massive
job cuts 04/12/2005 01:56 PM
12 per cent of staff sent off

trading subsidies

trading subsidies 01/07/2004 02:44 PM
I've got a column in the January Wired (not yet online) attacking farm subsidies. Actually, more precisely, attacking farm subsidies when, simultaneously, in the name of "free trade" we demand developing nations protect our IP. (You must protect the market for our Mickey, while we destroy the market for your wheat.) This has excited a flurry of farmers to write angry letters about national security (yep, bin-Laden is terrified by cheap wheat). Indeed, one "film maker - farmer" wrote to say it was more important to protect farmers than IP. Anyway, when the article appears online, it won't include an error that is in the printed edition. I was drafting between attacking the policies of industrialized nations in general, and America in particular, and the statistics got mixed in the end. It is the industrialized nations together that spend $300 billion a year on farm subsidies -- six times the aid to developing nations. Obviously, the US doesn't spend that much alone. I apologize for that stupid error, which is totally my fault. But I won't apologize for attacking farm subsidies.

EU set to slash sugar subsidies

EU set to slash sugar subsidies 06/22/2005 01:59 AM
The European Commission is to unveil reforms to its system of support for sugar growers to meet global rules.

W.T.O. Rules Against U.S. on Cotton
Subsidies

W.T.O. Rules Against U.S. on Cotton
Subsidies 04/26/2004 11:17 PM
Brazil won a preliminary ruling that could force the United States to lower the subsidies it pays farmers to grow cotton and, eventually, most subsidized crops.

EU willing to rethink Airbus subsidies

EU willing to rethink Airbus subsidies 08/15/2004 02:26 AM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Sun Aug 15, 12:37 am GMT

WTO raps EU over sugar subsidies

WTO raps EU over sugar subsidies 08/04/2004 08:49 PM
EU subsidies given to sugar producers violate trade rules, a draft World Trade Organisation ruling says.

WTO OKs Plan to End Farm Export
Subsidies (AP)

WTO OKs Plan to End Farm Export
Subsidies (AP) 07/31/2004 08:33 PM
AP - World Trade Organization members approved a plan Sunday to end export subsidies on farm products and cut import duties across the world, a key step toward a comprehensive global accord that has been discussed since 2001, trade officials said.

Ryanair fears defeat on subsidies

Ryanair fears defeat on subsidies 01/27/2004 04:00 PM
The budget airline says it appears to have lost its dispute with the European Union over its use of airport subsidies to keep down costs and over low price tickets.

South Korea allows 3G handset subsidies

South Korea allows 3G handset subsidies 04/15/2004 06:28 AM
The Register Apr 15 2004 10:47AM GMT

EC set to move on France Telecom
subsidies

EC set to move on France Telecom
subsidies 05/12/2004 01:04 PM
Silicon.com May 12 2004 3:47PM GMT

Inquiry of school Net subsidies deepens

Inquiry of school Net subsidies deepens 03/13/2003 04:57 PM
The U.S. House of Representatives wants detailed information about the $2.25 billion federal program subsidizing Internet access for schools and libraries.

Looming Battle Over Cotton Subsidies

Looming Battle Over Cotton Subsidies 01/24/2004 03:56 PM
An international court case in Geneva could force a resolution of the global battle over agricultural subsidies.

Boeing pushes for halt to Airbus
subsidies

Boeing pushes for halt to Airbus
subsidies 09/16/2004 02:01 AM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Wed Sep 15, 10:08 pm GMT

Mobile Operators Lukewarm to Subsidies
for PDA Phones

Mobile Operators Lukewarm to Subsidies
for PDA Phones 04/15/2004 03:55 AM
Hankooki Apr 15 2004 8:43AM GMT

Fossil fuel subsidies 'must end'

Fossil fuel subsidies 'must end' 06/21/2004 06:03 AM
Renewable energy offers the only hope of lifting the world's poorest people out of poverty, a UK environment group says.

Bumpy ride ahead as PC sets out to cut
subsidies

Bumpy ride ahead as PC sets out to cut
subsidies 09/26/2004 11:06 PM
Times of India Sep 27 2004 2:41AM GMT

Big Farms Reap Two Harvests With
Subsidies a Bumper Crop

Big Farms Reap Two Harvests With
Subsidies a Bumper Crop 12/25/2004 09:17 PM
As subsidies increase despite higher incomes for big farms, some say that the subsidy system has never made less sense.

Developing nations shouldn't respect US
copyright unless farm subsidies end

Developing nations shouldn't respect US
copyright unless farm subsidies end 01/16/2004 11:35 AM
Lessig points out that the US spent a hundred years ripping off everyone else's copyrights and now expects that no one else will ever do the same: moreover, we're demanding onerous IP regimes from developing nations in the name of "free trade" even as we engage in unfair trade subsidies ourselves.

The dirty little secret, however, is that we don't respect the free trade rules that we impose on others. While the US sings the virtues of free trade to defend maximalist intellectual property regulation, we poison the free trade that developing nations care about most - agriculture - by subsidizing farming in the industrialized world to the tune of $300 billion annually. Rhetoric about family farmers aside, most of that money passes quickly to agribusiness. This is not Adam Smith; it is corporate welfare par excellence...

A block of powerful developing nations should first take a page from the US Copyright Act of 1790 and enact national laws that explicitly protect their own rights only. It would not protect foreigners. Second, these nations should add a provision that would relax this exemption to the extent that developed nations really opened their borders. If we reduce, for example, the subsidy to agribusiness by 10 percent, then they would permit 10 percent of our copyrights to be enforced (say, copyrights from the period 1923 to 1931). Reduce the subsidy by another 10 percent, then another 10 percent could be enforced. And so on.

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WTO OKs Plan to End Farm Export
Subsidies (AP Financial News)

WTO OKs Plan to End Farm Export
Subsidies (AP Financial News) 08/01/2004 03:36 AM
AP Financial News - World Trade Organization members approved a plan Sunday to end export subsidies on farm products and cut import duties across the world, a key step toward a comprehensive global accord that has been discussed since 2001, trade officials said.

Threatened by al-Zarqawi

Threatened by al-Zarqawi 03/14/2005 05:53 PM

Expatica

Al-Qaeda tells Madrid: 'We will defeat all the infidels'
11 March 2005

DUBAI- Al-Qaeda's frontman in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, vowed to defeat "infidels and apostates" in response to a Madrid conference on terrorism.

"We tell the infidels and apostates, the enemies of God: whatever you do, you will be defeated. God promised us victory," read the statement from the Organization of Al-Qaeda of Jihad in the Land of Two Rivers, in a statement published on the Internet.

The authenticity of the statement could not be verified.

"How many times will the infidels and apostates meet to fight against Islam and combat the Jihad... They have other worries than to fight the Muslims and mistreat them," it said.

On the other hand...

CBS News

Spanish clerics issue fatwa against bin Laden

Last Updated Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:34:46 EST
CBC News

MADRID - Clerics representing the majority of Spain's one million Muslims have issued what they say is the world's first fatwa against Osama bin Laden.

The edict by the Islamic Commission of Spain, which represents about 70 per cent of the approximately 300 mosques in the country, called bin Laden an apostate and asks Muslims to denounce him.

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i-Buddie USB 2 HDD Housing

i-Buddie USB 2 HDD Housing 11/18/2003 11:34 AM
vnunet.com Nov 18 2003 10:29AM ET

Technologies Threatened By INDUCE Act

Technologies Threatened By INDUCE Act 07/09/2004 08:29 PM
Ernest Miller writes "Techdirt has called the INDUCE Act "broad and ridiculously dangerous" and claimed that "it would be disastrous for the tech industry." Both these claims are correct. To prove them, I've started a new feature on The Importance Of... called Hatch's Hit List. Every weekday I will endeavor to provide an example of technologies and devices that are threatened to be killed or crippled by the INDUCE Act. I welcome suggestions for examples from Techdirt readers. "

Mambo Users Threatened

Mambo Users Threatened 09/18/2004 01:12 PM

U.K. man threatened with BitTorrent
lawsuit

U.K. man threatened with BitTorrent
lawsuit 03/19/2005 02:55 AM
Movie studios serve legal papers to owner of Web site, claiming he allowed people to download copyright films.

"English" Not Threatened By Webspeak

"English" Not Threatened By Webspeak 03/24/2005 02:36 PM

US homes threatened by wildfires

US homes threatened by wildfires 07/17/2004 03:01 AM
Firefighters in the western US states of Nevada and California tackle raging wildfires.

Who Cares About the Housing Bubble?

Who Cares About the Housing Bubble? 04/13/2004 10:07 AM
A swig of Pepto and a small perspective shift is overdue.

The Housing Bubble Builds

The Housing Bubble Builds 07/08/2004 02:12 PM
The real estate market remains strong despite rising interest rates.

DIY Underwater Camera Housing

DIY Underwater Camera Housing 06/21/2004 01:43 PM

This do-it-yourself waterproof camera enclosure is pretty involved, and isn't the sort of thing you'd want to screw up, even a little, but if you're handy with the heat gun and aren't afraid to get your handheld deburring tool with swiveling cutter a little dirty, you can take pretty much any type of camera you'd like into the drink. Of course, if they make an underwater housing for your camera, it would probably just be easier to buy that, and maybe a little more reliable. Also, just for the record, this will work with your pet turtle Sub Captain Sandy, but only for about three minutes or so.
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Housing Bubble, Continued

Housing Bubble, Continued 04/11/2004 01:19 PM

Mercury News: As offers pour in, cutthroat market a boon for sellers. The fast-paced, competitive nature of this spring's Bay Area housing market has participants and observers alike speculating on the reasons -- particularly after three years of severe job losses.

The story goes on to offer all the usual reasons, such as a shortage of houses and low interest rates. But there's another very good explanation: rampant speculation of another kind, inducing panic buying like the kind that occurred in the stock market in the late 1990s. This is a bubble that will deflate eventually. It's happening elsewhere, as this NY Times story notes today. The mania will end here, too, and it'll be ugly.

Annals of the Housing Bubble

Annals of the Housing Bubble 05/21/2004 10:01 PM

Mercury News (reg req): Median home prices pass half-million mark. The median price of resale houses sold in the Bay Area reached $520,000 last month -- the first time that figure has exceeded the half-million point.

Lunacy.

The Housing Bubble, Continued

The Housing Bubble, Continued 06/19/2004 12:14 PM

Mercury News (reg req): Economy boosts valley home prices. The median price of a home in Santa Clara County reached $590,000, up 20.2 percent from May 2003, according to DataQuick Information Systems. A total of 2,149 resale houses changed hands in the county last month, a nearly 30 percent increase from a year earlier.

It's much more than the economy at work here. It's a mindless, dangerous bubble that shows what a short attention span human beings have when they are infected with greed and/or panic. This particular news story ends witha local public defender who found a lender that offered a "zero-down" loan -- that is, loaned the full selling price with no down payment. I can understand the borrower's motive, though I think it's an incredibly risky move, but the bank making this loan is just irresponsible. So is the real-estate industry that promotes this kind thing, but that's par for the course. Of course, the lender will now push this mortgage into the national market, offloading it to some other company. This is how we have such liquid markets, and the system was a boon in the past, greased as it has been by the likes of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the giant federal home-loan operations that act as though they have the full faith and credit of the U.S. taxpayer behind them even though they do not. But it is not sustainable, yet nobody in power dares mess with this machinery. What we'll see eventually, if we don't find a way to slowly deflate this bubble, is a massive collapse of the housing market that will in turn spark a severe recession. The truly scary scenario, still not the most likely but growing in probability every day, comes when falling prices for housing lead to massive collapses in the financial industry. But if that occurs, the Fannie Maes and Freddie Macs and the money-center banks with big exposure will be considered too big to fail. We taxpayers will bail them out to the tune of several trillion dollars, an amount that'll make the S&L bailout of the 1980s seem tiny. And the only way that will work will be to re-ignite inflation on an absolutely massive scale, because the only way to make it work will be to ratchet up the money supply in unprecedented fashion. This is a bubble. It will deflate. If it doesn't deflate gently, the nation is in for the worst kind of pain.

Housing curbs for new EU migrants

Housing curbs for new EU migrants 04/26/2004 06:45 PM
Tony Blair will announce curbs on "economically inactive" migrants from new and would-be EU states.

Dow Down 43 After Drop in Housing Starts
(AP)

Dow Down 43 After Drop in Housing Starts
(AP) 02/18/2004 08:15 PM
AP - A drop in housing starts and a rally in the U.S. dollar on currency markets sent stocks lower Wednesday as the news gave investors an incentive to collect profits.

Pop Goes the Global Housing Bubble

Pop Goes the Global Housing Bubble 06/17/2005 04:21 PM
The Global Housing Price Bubble is bursting. Prices are already declining in Australia and Britain. The Economist has another story that outlines how a global bursting of this bubble could be deleterious to the world's economy. The bubble is bigger than the stock market bubble of the late 90s. Will there be a smooth landing or will spending collapse when it cannot be funded on housing price gains?

No compassion in housing proposal

No compassion in housing proposal 09/22/2004 10:33 AM
Funny, we didn't hear any of the Republicans who used New York City as the backdrop of their convention last month talking about the administration's plans to fo rce poor families to either pay hundreds of dollars in extra rent or go homeless. But we're sure George Pataki, Michael Bloomberg, and Rudy Giuliani are going to talk to their Republican friends in Washington and take care of this pronto.

Freddie Mac: No Housing Bubble

Freddie Mac: No Housing Bubble 07/30/2004 12:20 PM
Salim Haji gets the scoop on why Freddie Mac believes that the U.S. real estate market today is rational.
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