l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 1 Oil price slumps again as US crude inventories surge
February 4, 2015 - 4:36 PM
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices plunged on Wednesday, ending a four-day rally,
after the U.S. government reported that crude inventories surged last week.
The 6.3 million barrel increase was far more than analysts had expected and
renewed worries in the market that supplies of oil are still outstripping
demand.
Oil had rallied 19 percent over the previous four days as traders hoped that
low prices would f... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 2 Arizona lawmakers tell cities they can't ban plastic bags
April 30, 2015 - 1:05 PM
By RYAN VAN VELZER, Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) — Vexed by the litter caught in cactus and shrubs, one Arizona
city banned plastic bags on Earth Day last year. Two others considered
similar bans as part of a growing trend around the country to outlaw the
single-use of plastic bags at checkout counters.
Those efforts are now in limbo after Arizona lawmakers voted this month to
make it illegal for cities to impose... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 3 You know Pam Geller. She’s a 1st Amendment warrior who has taken on Islam
and Muslims in general over Sharia Law and our 1st Amendment right of free
speech.
Muslims have scared people into silence around the world and Paris was a
real warning shot. If you do something they consider “offensive” they’ll
threaten to behead you. Their threats are not empty, they’re more than
willing to carry them out because, for 1,400 years, Muslims have been
butchering and enslaving their neighbors who refuse to b... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10729 | 4 Suspect in Ferguson gun battle shot by police amid Michael Brown protest
ST. LOUIS COUNTY police say a gun battle in Ferguson climaxed when a man
opened fire on plainclothes police detectives before being pursued and shot
by the officers, while the suspect's father says his son and Michael Brown '
were real close'.
评论倒是中肯：
That's what happens when you shoot at an officer, or anyone protecting their
2nd amendment rights for that matter, expect to get shot back. Honestly
what is wrong with that ci... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 5 Sweden Scrambles to Produce Black Band Aids After a Blogger Complains About
White Privilege
by Oliver Lane12 Aug 20150
A complaint by a feminist, anti-racist ‘blogger’ has prompted a Swedish
pharmacy chain to search out a manufacturer of ‘dark’ band-aids.
A discussion on government-funded Radio Sweden precipitated the controversy,
as a spokeswoman for the national Apoteket chain of pharmacies went head-to
-head with Every Day Racism blog author and Left-party campaigner Paula
Dahlberg.
Triggerin... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 6 欧洲大部medical system 都不能sustain的,时间稍微一长就完蛋了.
http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-01-03/frances-health-
Anita Manfredi got nine massages and 18 mud baths at a luxury spa in
November. The French government paid two-thirds of the $1,022 bill. “The
treatment has done me a lot of good,” says Manfredi, a French retiree who
suffers from arthritis and enjoys a three-week retreat at the southern spa
town of Dax every year. “I no longer have flare-ups.”
For decades, France has held up its health-care ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4091 | 7 In the recent debate, Trump was given a chance to recant or at least clarify
his Playboy comment. Instead, he basically defended his previous statement,
saying, “That doesn’t mean I was endorsing that. I said that was a strong
, powerful government. They kept down the riot, it was a horrible thing.”
And horrible things, in Trump World, are sometimes necessary. What is so
disturbing here is that Trump’s default to despotism rears its head often
enough in other ways to be a pattern. Recently, he u... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 8 Hillary Clinton urges journalists to go after Donald Trump
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times - Friday, August 5, 2016
Telling the Fourth Estate that it has a “special responsibility” in an
election cycle like this one, Hillary Clinton on Friday urged journalists to
keep up tough coverage of Donald Trump, and said that any news organization
targeted by the Republican presidential nominee should be proud.
Mrs. Clinton, who has come under fire for rarely answering reporters’
questions and almo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 12853 | 9 博导说现在复杂 ？
我从来不把经济方面的事情看简单，也许这是你我最大的区别。
在你又动粗口暴怒之前，请你看看别人专门为 Trump 的 Tax proposal 做的分析论文，
我必须承认我自己不是专家，也不敢说下面的论文就是金科玉律，但是我给你看看，即
使针对 Trump 本人的税改方案，也有不同的意见：
凡是有人敢说经济问题“很简单的”，我必须说这个人不是无耻，就是无知。
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/analysis-donald-trumps-tax-plan
Research Report
Analysis of Donald Trump's Tax Plan
James R. Nunns, Leonard E. Burman, Jeffrey Rohaly, Joseph Rosenberg
Overview(active tab)
Full Report
Media Mentions
ABSTRACT
This paper analyzes presidential candidate Donald T... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 897 | 10 LaS VEGAS—The line Friday evening stretched outside Cardenas Market in Las
Vegas, teeming with Hispanic voters eager to cast ballots.
Many had to wait for hours on the last day of a fortnight of early voting in
Nevada, plied by food and exhortations from activists who didn’t have to
do much. Election officials had to keep the polling place open an extra
three hours to accommodate the line, which was described thusly on Twitter
by Yvanna Cancela, the political director for the majority Hispanic C... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 598 | 13 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: OlilO (近乎平壤), 信区: Military
标 题: 重磅炸弹：川普任命最反共的Navarro为贸易工业政策主管
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Dec 21 22:18:45 2016, 美东)
Navarro将是川普圈子里唯一的经济学者。他的观点，必然就是美国今后4年或者8年的
政策！
Navarro是主攻中国经济和贸易的经济学者。他反共的激烈程度，比一般的反对派厉害
得多、也深入得多。两年前他曾自筹经费拍了Death by China，里面显示他对中共对外
对内的各种猫腻门儿清，绝不是对中国雾里看花的普通“中国通”。比老朽一代的基辛
格眼光毒辣许多。
Navarro的贸易理念就是杜绝贸易赤字，也就是杜绝对手的顺差。这和中共在经济上几
乎没有调和余地（但是美国可能在政治上配合交换，例如中共坚守人民币官方汇率、忍
受美国单方面超高关税，而美国支持习包子对内巩固权力）。
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发帖数: 8967 | 14 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: OlilO (近乎平壤), 信区: Military
标 题: 重磅炸弹：川普任命最反共的Navarro为贸易工业政策主管
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Dec 21 22:18:45 2016, 美东)
Navarro将是川普圈子里唯一的经济学者。他的观点，必然就是美国今后4年或者8年的
政策！
Navarro是主攻中国经济和贸易的经济学者。他反共的激烈程度，比一般的反对派厉害
得多、也深入得多。两年前他曾自筹经费拍了Death by China，里面显示他对中共对外
对内的各种猫腻门儿清，绝不是对中国雾里看花的普通“中国通”。比老朽一代的基辛
格眼光毒辣许多。
Navarro的贸易理念就是杜绝贸易赤字，也就是杜绝对手的顺差。这和中共在经济上几
乎没有调和余地（但是美国可能在政治上配合交换，例如中共坚守人民币官方汇率、忍
受美国单方面超高关税，而美国支持习包子对内巩固权力）。
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发帖数: 29576 | 15 开一天会， 老婆孩子不在身边，晚上接着看， 中间抽时间签总统令
He rises before 6 a.m., watches television tuned to a cable channel first in
the residence, and later in a small dining room in the West Wing, and looks
through the morning newspapers: The New York Times, The New York Post and
now The Washington Post.
But his meetings now begin at 9 a.m., earlier than they used to, which
significantly curtails his television time. Still, Mr. Trump, who does not
read books, is able to end his evenings with plenty of television.
In ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2449 | 16 https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/issue-international-arrest-warrant
-george-soros
George Soros is a menace to the free world and stands in the way of making
America great again. He is guilty of the following crimes:
1) Financially supports open sedition in major American cities resulting in
millions of dollars of property damage as well as loss of life.
2) Attempts to manipulate democratic elections by donating millions of
dollars to his preferred candidates.
3) Seeks to curtail America... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2449 | 17 http://humanevents.com/2011/04/02/top-10-reasons-george-soros-is-dangerous/
Top 10 Lists
Top 10 Reasons George Soros Is Dangerous
Human Events | Saturday Apr 2, 2011 3:01 AM
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Human Events’ readers, in an online poll, recently voted billionaire
financier George Soros “the single most destructive leftist demagogue in
the country.” Here are the Top 10 Reasons George Soros Is Dangerous:
1. Gives billions to left-wing causes: Soros started the Open Soc... 阅读全帖 |
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L****n
发帖数: 12932 | 18 there isn't a side to fall on. China should choose its own side for Chinese
interests.
The best outcome is china compromise here with trump - agree to change
regime in NK and give up the nuclear in NK. Ideally get someone listening to
Beijing installed as head of NK. Trump get to boast curtailing nuclear
threat at Korean Peninsula. In return, US stay out of South China Sea as
well as Taiwan affairs. A once in a lifetime chance to 一石三鸟。hope Xi is
smart enough to see.
Fighting for NK and Kim iii... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 19 Why waste time on this alligator when the swamp’s most critical economic
and political problems revolve around the hegemony of a global corporate
cartel, which is headquartered in the US because this is where their
dominant military force resides. The US Constitution is therefore the “
kingpin” of an all-inclusive global financial empire. These fictitious
entities now own the USA and command its military infrastructure by virtue
of the Federal Reserve Corporation, regulatory capture, MSM propaga... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 20 半农走了，steve miller现在是中流砥柱。
NYT:White House Weighs Lowering Refugee Quota to Below 50,000
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering reducing the number of
refugees admitted to the country over the next year to below 50,000,
according to current and former government officials familiar with the
discussions, the lowest number since at least 1980.
President Trump promised during his 2016 campaign to deny admittance to
refugees who posed a terrorist threat. In his first days in office he to... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 21 尼玛猪党都是人渣。当时做这些的时候咋没想到报应呢？真以为猪党万年执政了？
Lerner, Paz say they fear physical harm from enraged public, want IRS
testimony sealed permanently
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/19/lois-lerner-holly-paz-want-
testimony-sealed-perman/?utm_source=onesignal&utm_campaign=pushnotify&utm_
medium=push
Former IRS executive Lois G. Lerner told a federal court last week that
members of her family, including “young children,” face death threats and
a real risk of physical harm if her explanation of the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2018 | 22 有中国撑腰， 制裁也木用
http://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-burma-solution-1511310714
China’s Burma ‘Solution’
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Burma on Sunday to propose a
solution to the Rohingya humanitarian crisis. But instead of using its
influence to rein in Burma’s military, China’s plan would encourage the
government to keep mistreating minorities.
The Burmese military used attacks on army posts by a small Rohingya militant
group in late August as an excuse to start “clearance operations.”
S... 阅读全帖 |
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W*****B
发帖数: 4796 | 23 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: WCNMLGB (CCC), 信区: Military
标 题: 美军订购反坦克武器两个月内转手交给伊斯兰国
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Dec 14 12:50:11 2017, 美东)
The U.S. bought this anti-tank weapon. Within 59 days, ISIS had it.
LONDON — Some weapons bought by the U.S. military in 2015 ended up in the
hands of Islamic State fighters within two months, according to a report
released Thursday.
The findings, by Conflict Armament Research (CAR), an independent arms-
tracking organization, are based on three years of meticulous ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24733 | 24 Trump admin orders sharp drawdown of US refugee resettlement: report
The Trump administration is dramatically scaling back U.S. refugee
resettlement efforts, according to a Thursday Reuters report.
The move comes months after the White House announced plans to significantly
curb refugee admissions and to more carefully vet new entrants to the
country.
In a Dec. 1 meeting, State Department officials reportedly told nine refugee
agencies that resettlement offices throughout the country will not re... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 25 １９７４年以色列学校遭到袭击的时候, 以色列通过法律加强学校的保安, 而不是禁枪
. 这么common sense的问题还要讨论嘛?
When terrorists attacked a school in Maalot in 1974, Israel did not declare
every school a gun-free zone. It passed a law mandating armed security in
schools, provided weapons training to teachers and today runs frequent
active shooter drills. There have been only two school shootings since then,
and both have ended with teachers killing the terrorists.
Israel proves the NRA's arguments
In reality, Israel's gun policy is living p... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3656 | 26 Told to get psych exam.
And he was saying to his students as a Iraq veteran that he d protect them
at all cost should bad guys come shooting.
Now you ask why we oppose the so called measures to prevent mentally ill to
own arms?
The liberals can just label good people as "need help". The next
thing u
know ur rights are curtailed. Ur arms and other property confiscated.
One has to go through lengthy appeal. And when u get ur stuff back, they are
so damaged due to years of improper storage and abus... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 20195 | 29 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: macrowave (每天按时吃饭刷牙洗澡), 信区: Military
标 题: NED 2009 Asia Program Highlights
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Oct 15 07:35:33 2010, 美东)
http://ned.org/publications/annual-reports/2009-annual-report/asia
East Asia’s two authoritarian states, China and North Korea, maintained or
tightened political controls. In China, the government continued to curtail
existing freedoms, placing additional controls on the internet and increasin
g pressure on dissidents. In North Korea, the governm... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2136 | 30 NATIONAL SECURITY ALERT: F-35 STEALTH FIGHTER SPY COVER-UP
November 2, 2010 posted by Gordon Duff ·
“WIKI” STYLE ESPIONAGE LANDS $300 BILLION DOLLAR SUPER-PLANE PLANS
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
“Another spy disaster like Pollard, shoved under the rug too long due to
pressure from the powerful Israeli lobby.”
On April 21, 2009, the Department of Defense announced the theft of 1.5
terabytes of data on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the platform meant give
the United States and her a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4964 | 31 On a constant basis, emails arrive in my inbox with complaints about the way
segments are broken down at GoodCarBadCar. And rightly so. All vehicles are
not as closely aligned with a competitor as, say, the Toyota Camry is with
the Honda Accord. We all see the potential for cross-shopping differently,
so I’m not offended when an aggressive reader calls me an idiot because I
displayed sales figures for the Audi A7 alongside sales figures for cars
like the A6, 5-Series, CLS-Class, and Infiniti M r... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3262 | 32 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/23/us-amazon-sellers-idU
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is grappling with a problem that eBay Inc has
struggled with for years: The proliferation of unauthorized third-party
sellers that undercut the world's top consumer brands.
The sellers offer online shoppers goods ranging from Guess watches to LG
televisions and Adidas sportswear at low prices, upsetting Amazon suppliers
who want the world's largest online retailer to crack down on unauthorized
discounting.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16729 | 33 【 以下文字转载自 Biology 讨论区 】
发信人: bittergourd (苦瓜), 信区: Biology
标 题: 大伙儿等着失业海归吧，新消息，budget cut nation wide!!!
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Feb 14 14:32:48 2011, 美东)
收到一封BPS的信，关于FY 2011 funding package, H.R. 1
NIH: -$1.6 B
NSF: -$359.5 M
DOE: -$886 M
我老估计，就现在巴马这个熊样，这个法案八成是要通过了。想找珀斯到，老板没钱。
想找发考题，申不到方鼎。一堆生
物wsn/nv们，包括老美自己，涌到已经哀鸿遍野的industry，更没H1的机会了。依我看
，趁早联系海龟的退路吧。
Impact of the Proposed Cuts:
· Layoffs of thousands of highly skilled scientists, engineers,
technologists, and support personnel and
contr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4978 | 34 好可怜呀。
An op-ed went viral Wednesday, in which the last days of Duquesne University
adjunct instructor Margaret Mary Vojtko were described as emblematic of the
plight of part-time contract faculty. But the college where she taught says
that depiction is far from the truth.
Daniel Kovalik, senior associate general counsel for the United Steelworkers
union, wrote in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette column that he was likely the
last person to speak to Vojtko prior to her death. Although Vojtko had
taught ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4978 | 35 China's Publication Bazaar
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6162/1035.full
A Science investigation has uncovered a smorgasbord of questionable
practices including paying for author's slots on papers written by other
scientists and buying papers from online brokers.
SHANGHAI, CHINA—The e-mail arrived around noon from the mysterious sender "
Publish SCI Paper," with the subject line "Transfer co-first author and co-
corresponding author." A message body uncluttered with pleasantries
contained... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 36 这是trump 3月底要求国会把FY 17年的domestic spending cut 18 billions的新闻。
里面要把nih cut 1 billion.国会17年都不理会他的request,18年自然也不会。
说实话，如果trump propose cut 1~5%，还要严肃对待。他18年要cut nih by 5
billions,一看就没戏，就是逗你玩得。
According to the document, the biggest proposed cut to any individual agency
would be a $1.23 billion reduction to the budget of the National Institutes
of Health, primarily by significantly curtailing research grants.
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-03-28/trump-
administration-to-request-18... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 37 The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH's) budget would get a modest 3.2%
raise, to $35.2 billion, in a draft spending bill released by a House of
Representatives committee today. To the relief of U.S. research universities
, the measure would also explicitly block a proposal by the Trump
administration to slash by two-thirds the payments that NIH disburses to
cover the overhead costs of the research it funds. Furthermore, the bill
ignores a Trump plan to abolish NIH’s widely lauded global heal... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 11249 | 38 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: dellp (dellp), 信区: Military
标 题: The U.S. Is Purging Chinese Cancer Researchers From Top Institutions
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Jun 15 20:27:51 2019, 美东)
The NIH and the FBI are targeting ethnic Chinese scientists, including U.S.
citizens, searching for a cancer cure. Here’s the first account of what
happened to Xifeng Wu.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-06-13/the-u-s-is-purging-
chinese-americans-from-top-cancer-research
The dossier on cancer researcher Xif... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 335 | 39 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: bluedropddk (bluedropddk), 信区: Military
标 题: 常春藤名校录取有多腐败The Myth of American Meritocracy
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Feb 23 20:35:25 2015, 美东)
常春藤名校录取有多腐败？ 此博文包含图片 (2015-02-23 10:01:24)转载▼
标签： 杂谈 歧视 亚裔 分类： 美国见闻
读罗恩·昂茨（Ron Unz）的长文《美国任人唯贤的神话》
昂茨是一个犹太裔的商人，哈佛本科，斯坦福理论物理硕士。他试图获得共和党1994年
加州州长竞选的党内提名但没有成功，但当时他获得了34.3%的选票，被人笑称为“物
理学书呆子的竞选”。他写于2012年的这篇38页长文《美国任人唯贤的神话》（The
Myth of American Meritocracy）在美国教育界如同重磅炸弹，其翔实的资料（有120
处引文）和严密的逻辑使得他的论点极难被反驳。他甚至在论述中逐一讨论了反方论点
和论据，让人更难以挑战他... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 146 | 40 Bullish outlook on European and emerging market stocks, as well as
commodities.
By Jurrien Timmer, co-manager of Fidelity Global Strategies Fund, Fidelity
Viewpoints – 12/19/2012
It has been a year of confusion, of tail risks anticipated and averted,
fiscal cliffs, and quantitative easing (QE). It has been a year of a housing
recovery in the United States and a growth recession in China. It has been
a year when the eurozone stared into the abyss. It has been a year of an
against-all-odds rally i... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10 | 41 一般任何时候都可以，具体看你的贷款协议。
提前还部分叫curtailment. 看看贷款协议里头有没有提到。 |
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发帖数: 20252 | 42 payment towards principle |
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发帖数: 432 | 43 My question is why there is such a transaction since I did not make any
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h*e
发帖数: 10233 | 44 做refinance，在preliminary Hud-1上看到这一项，1000多刀，本来lender rebate -
各项cost基本是0，结果多出来这一项变成cash from buyer 1000多刀？google了一下
还是不清楚答案，有人知道吗？ |
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发帖数: 5952 | 45 只要是no cost refi, 你就不需付closing cost. 看HUD可能会看不懂.
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h*e
发帖数: 10233 | 46 当初说的是根据appraisal，最后可能会有一两百的cost,我的balance比较低，所以觉
得可以接受，没想到一下子搞出来个1000多。明天去质问他们之前先来这里接受科普一
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h*e
发帖数: 10233 | 47 这个我也查到了，不过我自己算了一下，lender rebate - origination fee - 各种
legal/gov fee,只剩下10多块，所以搞不清楚这1000多是怎么来的。
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h*e
发帖数: 10233 | 48 你的意思是最后borrower付的钱未必是HUD里cash from borrower那栏的数字？ |
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o*****p
发帖数: 5952 | 49 easy to read closing statement. u agent should explain to u. |
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b*d
发帖数: 9308 | 50 这个也是你的credit，不用担心了。closing完了以后lender会退钱给你的。
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