Category: Month in review

Month in Review: September 2009, Part 2

13 November, 2009 (11:43) | Capital markets, Condos, Month in review, Speculation, Subprime, TARP | No comments

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]

[Previous Months In Review here: Aug 09, Jul 09, Jun 09, May 09, Apl 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]

 
By: David A. Smith
 
Continuing our review of September’s posts, technology changes interpersonal dynamics and in so doing reveals aspects of human nature, in particular that what matters in crime prevention is [...]

Month in Review: September 2009, Part 1

12 November, 2009 (12:56) | Capital markets, Condos, Month in review, Speculation, Subprime, TARP | No comments

[Previous Months In Review here: Aug 09, Jul 09, Jun 09, May 09, Apl 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]

 
By: David A. Smith
 
During September, I published a two-part post so depressing and sober it had taken me a year to take it out of inventory, about Winston Smith’s nightmare: The ultimate future city: [...]

Month in Review, August 2009: Part 2, housing policy and finance are national

30 September, 2009 (11:29) | Admin, Month in review | No comments

[Previous Months In Review available here: Jul 09, Jun 09, May 09, Apr 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]
  

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
 
By: David A. Smith
 
Continuing our review of August’s posts, we saw in yesterday’s Part 1 that housing is local, because the property cannot move.  But housing finance and policy are far from [...]

Month in Review, August 2009: Part 1, housing is local

29 September, 2009 (10:21) | Admin, Month in review | No comments

[Previous Months In Review available here: Jul 09, Jun 09, May 09, Apr 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]
 
By: David A. Smith
 
With the capital markets stunned into lassitude through repeated bludgeoning with new legislative acronyms, and Washington consumed with an infinite-regressive loop in which the words ‘health care’ are added to every conversation, I [...]

Month in review, July 2009

14 August, 2009 (09:40) | Capital markets, GPBO, Innovations, Local issues, Month in review, US News | No comments

[Previous Months In Review available here: Jun 09, May 09, Apr 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09]
 

“The solution is its salesware”
 
The month’s most important post came halfway through, a mantra I’ve been chanting for years now: The solution is its salesware:
 
Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said: ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’
‘I [...]