{"id":195730,"date":"2008-06-18T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/18\/more-fed-up-real-estate-press-coverage\/"},"modified":"2008-06-18T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T22:17:00","slug":"more-fed-up-real-estate-press-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/18\/more-fed-up-real-estate-press-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"More F$#@ed Up Real Estate Press Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the real estate market in Manhattan is finally softening, and what lead article from <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/real-estate\/article\/105253\/Signs-of-Softness-Appear-in-Manhattan-Real-Estate;_ylt=AvMoUHwdCnL517ErZUEQEAC7YWsA\">blithering idiot Leslie P. Norton<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Signs of cracks in Manhattan&#8217;s property market could mean the rest of the country is on the road to recovery, since New York tends to feel the effects of a slowing economy later than the nation does. One segment still in the stratosphere: luxury condos and co-ops in exclusive buildings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, it <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">could<\/span> mean that the market is turning around&#8230;..or it <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">could<\/span> mean that that space aliens have abducted you and replaced you with a robot.<\/p>\n<p>What it means that prices are dropping in Manhattan, which indicates a down market <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">in Manhattan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>How does that saying go, ahhh&#8230;yes:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>For example, given the premise, &#8220;all fish live underwater&#8221; and &#8220;all mackerel are fish&#8221;, my wife will conclude, not that &#8220;all mackerel live underwater&#8221;, but that &#8220;if she buys kippers it will not rain&#8221;, or that &#8220;trout live in trees&#8221;, or even that &#8220;I do not love her any more.&#8221; This she calls &#8220;using her intuition&#8221;. I call it &#8220;crap&#8221;&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And it gets me very irritated too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the real estate market in Manhattan is finally softening, and what lead article from blithering idiot Leslie P. Norton? Signs of cracks in Manhattan&#8217;s property market could mean the rest of the country is on the road to recovery, since New York tends to feel the effects of a slowing economy later than the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[974,1064,1088,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hack-journalism","category-media","category-real-estate","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}