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...In Sehwan fans of this Sufi saint adorn his memorial with Rosa indica, grown in nurseries for the purpose....
...“For we are very close to the revered Sufi mausoleum of Sidi Abderrahman.”...
...For British-Pakistani artist Shezad Dawood, neon is linked with childhood memories of Karachi, where “the evening haze would seemingly pulsate and radiate with neon signs, from Sufi shrines to kebab shops...
...Last month we arrived anticipating a warm fire and a pint of real ale only to find the pub closed up, recently sold by the brewery to a property developer....
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...Which is why property investors must guard against liquidity risk....
...With other Tel Aviv musicians (from Morocco, Iraq and Poland), he formed the band El Khat, named for the leaf with stimulant properties widely chewed in Arabia, the Horn of Africa — and among Israel’s 130,000...
...Whatever the outcome for him, the Louis Vuitton saga is to our gain in that Mirza has given us a room of clever pieces that prompt questions about intellectual property....
...I spend an hour reading spiritual texts every morning as preparation for the day ahead, and I found this allegorical description of the soul’s journey to transcendence in the form of a Sufi poem incredibly...
...Indeed there is a small museum in Tozeur that for centuries was a house for Sufi practice....
...The policy choices on deregulation, rather than other properties inherent in the various US states, seem to be the main driver....
...The tracks of the Iditarod dog-race run right through the heart of the property. But it’s other things that really lingered from our stay there....
...Consider the chart below, which shows the relative growth of debt among borrowers according to their credit scores in 1997 (via Atif Mian and Amir Sufi): People who were deemed the worst credit risks in...
...“He said he needed to get rid of that property immediately,” she said. “He was scared. He thought they were going to come one night and kill him.”...
...Babur was a Sunni Muslim who also favoured Sufi saints. The Aga Khan, of course, is Isma’ili — a Shia branch of Islam — as suspicious mullahs in Kabul complained in 2002....
...Chinese treatment of the Uighurs, most of whom follow a moderate branch of Sufi Islam, is becoming a sore point with Muslims overseas — particularly in Turkey, whose language is closely related to Uighur...
...They borrow short with government-subsidised liabilities such as deposits, and they lend long against property assets. They do so with very little equity to cover their losses in case things go wrong....
...Perhaps most importantly, Mian and Sufi compared their data with independent studies of mortgage fraud (including this one) and found that the zip codes with the highest incidences of lying about property...
...Sir, Amir Sufi draws correct conclusions from Ben Bernanke’s rejected refinance application (Comment, October 14)....
...To the non-economist layman (like me), the presence of Amir Sufi on several panels was also welcome. Last year I recommended “House of Debt”, the book co-authored by Sufi and Atif Mian....
...Landlords, however, pay tax on the rent they receive This makes owner-occupation far cheaper than renting the same property....
...collateralised on property, and so on....
...- A response to Sufi and Mian from David Beckworth. - Cleveland Fed on low inflation… - … and San Fran Fed on inflation expectations. - Mervyn King on Picketty....
...) IPO banks seek measure of success (Financial Times long read) Ukip is a howl at the modern economy (Financial Times, Ganesh) The number that explains Hong Kong’s upheaval (WSJ) China property: mind...
...The distributional outcomes were part of the problematic debt dynamics chronicled by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi, wherein broad-based growth instead was driven largely by middle- and lower-income households...
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