Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith
So good is the New York Times’s headline for this story – adapted from Christopher Marlowe – that I cannot improve upon it:
Come live with me and be my Love
And we will all the pleasures prove
– Christopher Marlowe
Shakespeare’s contemporary and competitor
So intertwined with our notions of family are our feelings about housing [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
– The Beatles, A Day in the Life
If all you took from the February 11 Economic Times of India were the clips we highlighted yesterday, one could be forgiven for being depressed about India’s potential – [...]
By: David A. Smith
I read the news today, oh boy
– The Beatles, A Day in the Life
One day’s newspaper clippings – in this case, The Times of India, Thursday, February 11 – represent an info-montage of the world’s largest democracy muscling its way into the twenty-first century, and along the way the world’s largest and [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Yesterday, examining the New York Times‘ reporting of Ben Bernanke’s reconfirmation as Federal Reserve Chairman, we saw that the Times focused on what happened – a 70-30 final vote – rather than the mountainously glaring things that didn’t happen:
“But the Senate did nothing at the hearings.”
“That was the [...]
By: David A. Smith
It’ll go down in the box score as a line drive, baseball announcers chortle when a seeing-eye dribbler finds the hole between shortstop and third – as if claiming a base that way is somehow unmanly.
Doesn’t look unmanly to me
Yet newly reconfirmed Chairman Ben Bernanke knows, as I wonder how many [...]
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