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  • Hence, the whole idea of lending gazillions to Californians, of octupling mortgage dollars going to Hispanics from 1999 to 2006, ever made any sense.

    Matthew Yglesias » Were Mistakes Made? 2008

  • I don't entertain any fantasies about eight-hour writing days and octupling my former productivity -- I've heard enough from other writers who have gone full-time that life expands to fill much of the time that the day job used to, and I don't even intend to try to write full-time.

    9/27/07: Code monkey have every reason / get out this place 2007

  • Even if you took the longer-term view, and didn't bail out of stocks until the P/E climbed above its long-run average of 14, you would have sold out in the late 1980s and missed an octupling of your money.

    Dow 36,000 1999

  • Even if you took the longer-term view, and didn't bail out of stocks until the P/E climbed above its long-run average of 14, you would have sold out in the late 1980s and missed an octupling of your money.

    Dow 36,000 1999

  • I remember you making this comment on the Barbie computer engineer comment page too. and people will actually read it, thereby octupling the average educational achievement of an American.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2010

  • I remember you making this comment on the Barbie computer engineer comment page too. and people will actually read it, thereby octupling the average educational achievement of an American.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2010

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