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Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here Thursday query:Name: John MagillQuestion: Regarding your Oct.14 article on foreclosures and specifically the woman who may lose her New York home but had taken $500,000 out of it. I know she had a $6,000 water main break but she took half a million from that dump. Why didn ;t you ask her about the half million She got her money, now she wants the house also. I don ;t care it the family house, she taken a half million. And you stand there and say nothing.Paul Solman: I ;ve long lamented the remarkable vituperation of the e-mail age. Not that I haven 8 stanley cup 217;t gotten hostile snail mail in 40 years as a journ stanley cup alist, but there something about the instantaneous that seems to bring out thoughts best left unexpressed. Or maybe it the culture of shrill, rife with radio ranters nurturing the dark side, forever upping the pitch: a vicious circle of venom. Why didn ;t you ask her about the half-million you write. And you stand there and say nothing.As opposed to saying what You ;re a fo stanley cup ol, ma ;am How could you have been so stupid You bought something that now worth half what you paid, so quit bellyaching Though the interviewee didn ;t actually complain at all.As for the hal Oswc What s the state of economic inequality in America
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