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		<title>It&#8217;s painful, it&#8217;s ugly, it&#8217;s what a real estate bottom feels like.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That feeling in the pit of your stomach that there's nothing good in the world? Get comfortable with it, make it your friend. To put it succinctly, buy when you are depressed and sell when you are happy.]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the Ashworth Partners Ltd. blog 3.0</title>
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Welcome to the new home of the Ashworth Partners blog version 3. This is were you will find our latest insights on Commercial Real Estate Loan Modification, Multifamily Investments, The Dealizer analysis software as well as our take on the financial, economic and current affairs effecting business. We invite you to participate by sharing your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the credit crisis the disease or the symptom?</title>
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I am running a friend&#8217;s campaign for city council so I&#8217;ve been talking  to a lot of people the last few months. Most of the conversations have  been about our home town of Bellevue WA and the local issues the city is  facing but I&#8217;ve also had a number of conversations about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ashworthpartners.com/is-the-credit-crisis-the-disease-or-the-symptom/</link>
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		<title>More Positive Indications for Multifamily</title>
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At the end of last year (See my Dec. 28 post Why buy Multifamily in &#8216;09)  I laid out a number of factors pointing to the opportunity to secure  good returns on income producing apartments this year. As time marches  on we are receiving more corroborating evidence of a market bottom for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Credit Rate Spreads as Indicators</title>
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Vince Farrell of Soleil Securities Group  sent me his take on what key  credit spreads are indicating about the financial landscape and economic  prospects. For a little background, a &#8217;spread&#8217; is trader talk for the  difference between two financial instruments, in this case the interest  rates offered different debt instruments. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why buy Multifamily in &#8216;09?</title>
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As I sit here looking out at the snow while I&#8217;m taking time out to  review and update my goals for the year there are stars aligning to make  the new year a positive one. Especially if you are looking for  alternatives for your investment and retirement money. The stock market  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bank Bailout Trap</title>
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We&#8217;ve cornered ourselves trying to bail out the &#8220;Too Big To Fail&#8221; banks.  In trying to keep them alive in the name of saving the financial system  we&#8217;ve been pumping them full of our childrens&#8217; tax dollars to little  effect and we wonder why they&#8217;re not really lending. The downward spiral  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ashworthpartners.com/the-bank-bailout-trap/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Those who fail to learn from history&#8230;</title>
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&#8230;are doomed to repeat it&#8221;. Winston Churchill&#8217;s advice is very timely  because it seems like 60 years is about as long as we can go before  having to RE-learn the important lessons from The Depression.
The  repeal of the The Banking Act of 1933 (AKA The Glass-Steagall Act) in  1999 was the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ashworthpartners.com/those-who-fail-to-learn-from-history/</link>
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		<title>5 signs we&#8217;re not heading into Depression 2.0</title>
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In a series of emails with Vince Farrell, CIO of Soleill Securities we  were discussing his comments on CNBC about the contrast between 1929 and  now. His point was that the policy decisions being made now are the  correct ones and that there are a number of protections in place, as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ashworthpartners.com/5-signs-were-not-heading-into-depression-2-0/</link>
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