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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Les H who wrote (103102)	2/2/2008 11:12:26 PM
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Home Prices Start to Dip, Recalling ’90s Slump nytimes.com Inflation puts savers on borrowed time business.scotsman.com

To: Les H who wrote (103102)	2/2/2008 11:36:30 PM
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Americans go to Mexico for a cheaper perfect smile news.yahoo.com

To: Les H who wrote (103102)	2/4/2008 10:35:02 AM
From: Les H	Respond to of 306849

Egg cuts off cardholders who settle their accounts in full each month thisismoney.co.uk 'Stop spending' A spokesman for Egg said: "We are sorry some customers are upset after receiving notification we are ending their credit card arrangement, but they are people we do not feel it is appropriate to lend any money to." He added: "The decision was taken after an extensive one-off review of our credit card book following acquisition by Citigroup." "We can certainly understand the concerns, but even if people are up-to-date with repayments, they are people we decided we no longer wish to lend money to regardless of their status." news.bbc.co.uk Sounds like preemptive action to cut off potential problem customers who are over their heads in RE loans.