Tuesday, May 27, 2008

A Tale of Two Shitties

Here's a couple of non-surprises for you this morning:

While sellers nationwide are suffering, the highest segment of the luxury market, in trophy property corners like Palm Beach, Fla., Beverly Hills, Calif., or the east end of New York's Long Island, has performed well.

[...]

[In] an elite enclave of the Venetian Islands, in Miami Beach, where one will often find sales of $20 million and up, there have been more sales in the first quarter this year than all of last year combined.

  Forbes

and...

NYT Headline: As Border Efforts Grow, Corruption Is on the Rise

...And you're still...just across...the borderline.

As onward we march to third-world status with widespread and deeply embedded political corruption and an ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor.


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