Median home price change expectations decreased from 3.3 %
in August to 3.1 %, remaining within the
narrow 3.0 % to 3.3 %
band observed over the last 12 months, and
staying well below the readings
in the previous two years.
Up and down its
narrow valleys and across its great plain went the pomp and panoply of the ancient world, and its more commonplace traffic as well: rich argosies from far Babylon, carrying the wares down to Egypt; royal messengers of the great kings who ruled
in Persepolis, bearing decrees for the officer
in charge at the frontier station of Assouan; plenipotentiaries of Hatti and of Egypt, seeking a modus vivendi
in the political stresses of the thirteenth century; conquerors with their chariots and footmen and their tale of atrocities behind and yet before; wandering
bands of foot - loose adventurers, seeking a good land where they might strike roots into the soil - all these and hosts of others were led among the Palestinian hills where went the great trunk roads of the ancient world, camped
in the plains, bartered
in the little cities, or
stayed to lay permanent claim to some hit of the land.
As you are a believer
in metaphysics, it's not surprising that you find our motivation opaque, but for those of us who have adopted the usages of science, we do note that at pre-industrial levels, global temperature
stayed within a
narrow band.