#using

The key to house prices is the share of foreclosure or short sales in the total housing market. When that share rises, house prices will fall, because distressed properties sell for significantly less - currently around 25 percent below non-distressed houses. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#because #below #currently #distressed #fall

There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#around #belongs #blame #bubble #causing

Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that followed. Today, by contrast, credit is too tight. Mortgage loans are particularly hard to get, creating a problem for the housing market and the broader economy. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#broader #bubble #calamity #contrast #creating

Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#downloaded #internet #more #more and more #most

We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#compare #just #network #number #people

I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#i #intellect #obtain #out #satisfaction

I'm using all my resources to help me with that and I feel the sky is the limit for me. ↗

— William Green

#help #i #i feel #limit #me

Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much. ↗

— Daniel Greenberg

#beyond #change #content #control #educators

When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days? ↗

— Dave Grohl

#already #counting #days #done #focusing

Well, we have two major goals. The most important one is to get the station arm on board the station, because that's this really milestone in the space station building since from now on they will be using this arm to continue building the space station. ↗

— Umberto Guidoni

#because #board #building #continue #get