Tuesday, January 27, 2009

In the News


  • 62,000 jobs cut worldwide on Monday
  • U.S. has lost 2.59 million jobs since December 2007
  • Unemployment is at 7.2%
  • Home Depot eliminates 2% of global workforce
  • Freddie and Fannie want MORE billions
  • 6 cities in PB County either have or are considering cameras to catch re-light runners.
    We had the good sense to say "no."
  • Fl Real Estate Commission goes easy on Jim Exline. He loses Broker's license for 6 months.
  • It could be worse. We could have the West Palm Beach Commission that just approved a 299 foot tall condo to be built at 1515 S. Flagler, 3 times larger than the previous building.
  • Home prices stabilized during December
  • Obama overhauls energy and ethics policies and wants information released, not concealed. Let's hope that Lake Worth can follow the example and vote in an Ethics Policy and that we can get public information in a timely fashion.
  • And someone stole someone's foot. No kidding.