Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith
[A full year's Month in Review available here: Dec 09, Nov 09, Oct 09, Sep 09, Aug 09, Jul 09, Jun 09, May 09, April 09, Mar 09, Feb 09, Jan 09.]
A blog is pointillist – sparkly bits of insight (we hope) collected by the roving eye of an intellectual crow. Yet [...]
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 [...]
By: David A. Smith
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Yesterday, riffing off a thought-provoking Harvard Business Review op-ed by Lawrence Candell from MIT’s Lincoln Laboratories, we envisioned the composition of a Financial Invention Review Board (FIRB), and bestowed upon it hypothetical powers.
“That’s a lot of powers!”
Creating a new entity and bestowing upon it such far-reaching powers will [...]
By: David A. Smith
Before we unleash a new financial drug on the world, might it require some clinical field trials? That question lies behind a fascinating Harvard Business Review op-ed by of all people and places, Lawrence Candell from MIT’s Lincoln Laboratories:
What can you do in a democracy when you rely on the private sector [...]
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