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Home Depot May Block Nardelli's New Job
from CNBC.com
Former Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli has been offered a position at the private-equity fund Cerberus Capital, but Nardelli's former employer is balking at letting him accept the job, CNBC's Charlie Gasparino has learned... read more

The Housing Market Correction Is Weighing on the Economy
from NAHB's Eye on the Economy
The dramatic housing market correction has been a major factor in the evolving macroeconomic picture since early last year — exerting strong drags on growth of both real GDP and payroll employment while putting strong upward pressure on measures of core consumer price inflation through the imputed “owners’ equivalent rent” components... read more

Technology: The Embrace And The Backlash
Sherwin-Williams 2007 Color Trend Forecast Reflects Growing Influence of Global Technology
from Sherwin-Williams.com
The Sherwin-Williams 2007 color trend forecast reflects a world that is immersed in - but at times overwhelmed by - the influence of technology... read more

Green Building to Skyrocket by 2010 to Half of New Homes
from Nation's Building News
More than 1,000 housing industry professionals in St. Louis last week to attend the ninth annual NAHB Green Building Conference heard that sustainable building products and techniques are advancing quickly into the mainstream and that NAHB is moving aggressively to bring the movement to national prominence... read more