Gaius Publius: Can Miami Beach Survive Global Warming?
Miami Beach as a canary in the coal mine for global warming.
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Wolf Richter: Fed Trips over Eye-Popping Commercial Real Estate Bubble, Accidentally Looks, Sees “Early Signs” of “Search for Yield”
Commercial real estate has been on a tear that looks to have much more to do with cheap money than real economy prospects.
Read more...San Francisco Votes Against Affordable Housing, For AirBnB
San Francisco shows its libertarian side in key votes yesterday.
Read more...Trading Away Land Rights: TPP, Investment Agreements, and the Governance of Land
The nvestment provisions in the TPP and in most bilateral investment treaties can severely limit a government’s ability to manage its land and other natural resources in the public interest.
Read more...Michael Hudson on Parasitic Financial Capitalism
An interview with Michael Hudson on his latest book, Killing the Host, which focuses on the destruction wrought by financial capitalism.
Read more...Why Are Fannie and Freddie Raising Their Foreclosure Timeline?
One of the major fallacies skillfully employed by the lending industry since the foreclosure crisis is that the meddling defense attorneys and pro se litigants were clogging the courts with their dilatory motions and challenges, unnecessarily prolonging the foreclosure process, creating neighborhood blight and costing homeowners billions in property values by preventing “market clearing.” This […]
Read more...Wine and Water Watch (WWW) Challenges Northern California’s Invasive Wine Empire
Northern California activists opposed to the land and water use practices of the wine industry are stepping up their efforts.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Foreign “Smart Money” Frets about Turmoil at Home, Flees, Plows into US Housing Bubble 2, Thinks it’s a “Safe Haven”
Lambert: Just what we need; more 1%-ers. And if turmoil in emerging markets keeps up, we’ll have more of ’em, as conditions “at home” sharpen. By Wolf Richter, a San Francisco based executive, entrepreneur, start up specialist, and author, with extensive international work experience. Originally published at Wolf Street. Wealthy, very nervous foreigners yanking their money […]
Read more...Wolf Richter: Housing Bubble Means American Dream Withers at Record Pace
Despite the current housing “buying panic,” the soaring prices, and all the hoopla round them, there is a fly in the ointment: overall homeownership is plunging.
Read more...Affordable Housing Crisis Grows Across the Country as Apartment Rents Skyrocket
An update on where and how tenants are being squeezed by rising rents versus stagnant to low wage growth.
Read more...College Is Wildly Exploitative: Why Aren’t Students Raising Hell?
Colleges wear the cloak of liberalism, but in policy and practice, they often embody a corrupt and cutthroat system of power and exploitation
Read more...View from the Past: Banks Preferred Lending to Businesses, Not Collateral
Why the rise of collateral-based lending has been bad for our economic health.
Read more...The Revival of Cities and the Urban Land Premium
The popularity of certain cities is explained by their attractiveness for innovative enterprises and high-educated top talent. Is this a durable trend?
Read more...Dick Fuld Continues to Exhibit Advanced Case of Wall Street CEO Derangement Syndrome
It appears that having the financial crisis analogue to the captain of the Titanic carry on in the stereotypical super-entitled Wall Street CEO manner was too much for the tender sensibilities of CNBC.
Read more...The Great Land Banking Scam Exposed
It should come as no surprise that real estate kingpins buy political favors on a regular basis. A new study estimates the payoff.
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