Doug Duncan
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"Douglas M. "Doug" Duncan" is an American politician and member of the United States Democratic Party/Democratic Party. Duncan served as County Executive of Montgomery County, Maryland from 1994 to 2006. Duncan held the office longer than any other county executive in the county's history. In 2006, Duncan was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the Maryland gubernatorial election, 2006/Maryland gubernatorial election. He abruptly dropped out of the race on June 22, 2006, citing clinical depression, handing the nomination to Baltimore Mayor Martin J. O'Malley/Martin O'Malley. Following his exit from the gubernatorial race, he was appointed Vice President of Administrative Affairs of the University of Maryland, College Park, where he worked for 17 months. In 2014 he unsuccessfully ran for his old job as Montgomery County Executive. He lost to incumbent Ike Leggett in the Democratic Party primary.

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Coming off a fairly steady rate environment in 2004, these are very modest interest rate increases for the level of economic growth we are expecting.

One of the reasons we're concerned about the CAP is its proven ability to move species around. It moves species around even through what appears to be insurmountable barriers.

If you're stretched to the max to be able to make the interest-only payments, the question is: What are you going to do when the principal comes due?

There is no question that the ability to tap equity has supported consumption. It is a very, very powerful engine for the economy.

We're prepared to say the market has peaked in terms of the numbers of units sold.

People should get out and enjoy this beautiful weather today.

After discussing all the risks, Greenspan summed up by saying the share of households who are very highly leveraged is lower than expected and is not correlated closely with high home price states, other than California.

You may have missed the absolute bottom, but for a lot of people, 7 percent still looks great.

Even though [mortgage] rates have been up a little bit, they're still, from a 30- to 40-year perspective, at historic lows. It's still a great purchasing environment for people who want to get into housing.