Category: Holmes on housing

Inflation is the young’s revenge …

4 November, 2008 (10:52) | Essential posts, Holmes on housing, Markets, Policy, Theory, US News | No comments

“If revenge is a dish best served cold,” said Holmes, “then inflation is a dish long marinated.”
 
Fearing the worst, Watson folded the Times and composed himself in the attentively placid pose appropriate for the straight man.  “Yes?”
 

Watson knew a disquisition was about to begin
 
Holmes unlimbered his long legs.  “Inflation is the young’s revenge on [...]

Sherlock Holmes, new urbanist

2 December, 2005 (10:41) | Holmes on housing, Policy |

 
 
“Do you know, Watson,” said he, “that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought [...]