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The Housing Boom And Fall Sung As Opera: NPR

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First Posted: 04/26/11 06:34 PM ET Updated: 06/26/11 06:12 AM ET

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NPR:

The Case-Shiller home price index is a powerful way to look at the story of housing in America. You can see the boom and bust all in one simple graph.

But when we go on the radio to talk about home prices, a graph isn't much good to us — nobody can see it.

So we converted the Case-Shiller graph into musical notes.

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The Case-Shiller home price index is a powerful way to look at the story of housing in America. You can see the boom and bust all in one simple graph. But when we go on the radio to talk about home...
The Case-Shiller home price index is a powerful way to look at the story of housing in America. You can see the boom and bust all in one simple graph. But when we go on the radio to talk about home...
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xilduq
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11:27 PM on 04/26/2011
maybe it fell upon deaf ears, but it was hardly illustrative to me. what happened to a picture (like a chart) is worth a thousand words?
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11:21 PM on 04/26/2011
Actually, music is completely mathematical. This sort of thing should be done more often - especially to enlighten the mathematically challenged.
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ScentOpine
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09:42 PM on 04/26/2011
Warning - the few seconds of someone singing is NOT worth the much longer and even crappier commercial for a Wall Street bank that you have to watch before hand.

NPR - a completely owned subsidiary of Fortune 500. They can afford to make mortgage fraud fun.
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07:12 PM on 04/26/2011
It eerily resembles the last gasps of Motzart's Requiem Mass in D minor.
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