Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
As we predicted – reading the tea leaves wasn’t hard at all – my classmate Ben Bernanke has been renominated as Federal Reserve chairman, and will be reconfirmed sometime this fall, and for the reason we predicted, as made clear in this pair of Wall Street Journal articles:
File under ‘unflappable’
Obama Sticks With ‘Bold, [...]
Leave it to snarky Gawker to explode another of those urban-homesteading myths so favored by a certain kind of press, and a certain type of author:
Today’s New York Times Page One recession-porn dispatch is so unrelentingly hackneyed that William Shatner ought to read it aloud to bongos.
Who you calling hack-kneed?
And it neglects to mention that [...]
Why would you buy an expensive home in a tony London neighborhood and then leave it empty?
Vacancies even in my tony neighborhood?
That concerns me.
Leave it to the Wall Street Journal to peep through Mayfair’s lace curtains:
LONDON — At an abandoned home with yellowing newspapers on its front stoop, Paul Palmer peeks through a mail slot [...]
“Nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so,” says melancholy Hamlet, counting himself a king of infinite space and that, in a nutshell, is the trap of overconfidence.
Unzip your mind, and the rest will follow
1. I think, therefore I win
Or so says the logorrheic Malcolm Gladwell, in yet another of his probably-unsound-but-vibrantly-intriguing [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1].
Yesterday we delved into Westchester County’s recent settlement, as reported in the New York Times, of a desegregation lawsuit. Via a clever legal end run, it was brought against the county by the Anti-Discrimination Center, using the False Claims Act:
The case was litigated by Mr. Gurian and the center’s lawyer, John [...]
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