Category: Primer
31 August, 2012 (09:20) | Banking, Bonds, Capital markets, Euro, Finance, Global news, Hard equity, Primer |
By:David A. Smith Banker speak with forked tongue? In real life, talking from both sides of one’s mouth is a prescription for social disaster, but in finance, the difference between two perspectives can have profitable consequences (at least in the short term), as reported in the Wall Street Journal (August 12, 2012): [...]
26 June, 2012 (11:17) | Affordability, Capital markets, Ecosystem, Essential posts, Infrastructure, Legislation and policy, MEEs, Policy, Primer, Theory, Urbanization, US News |
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 3 and the preceding Part 1 and Part 2.] As we’ve seen so far in this four-part post, I had no trouble reeling off a score of answers, in response to the Bipartisan Policy Center‘s intriguing blog question: What lessons can the U.S. learn from [...]
25 June, 2012 (16:22) | Affordability, Capital markets, Ecosystem, Essential posts, Infrastructure, Legislation and policy, MEEs, Primer, Theory, Urbanization, US News |
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] As we saw in the two preceding posts, whereas Moses needed only ten rules for all of humanity, when called upon to reply to the Bipartisan Policy Center‘s intriguing blog question, I went on for twenty: What lessons can [...]
22 June, 2012 (10:12) | Affordability, Capital markets, Ecosystem, Essential posts, Infrastructure, Legislation and policy, MEEs, Primer, Theory, Urbanization, US News |
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Yesterday’s post covered five of the double-stack of housing policy commandments I posted on the Bipartisan Policy Center‘s blog, answering their intriguing question: What lessons can the U.S. learn from housing programs, policies, or regulatory frameworks in other countries? On to Part 2: [...]
21 June, 2012 (09:56) | Affordability, Capital markets, Ecosystem, Essential posts, Infrastructure, Legislation and policy, MEEs, Primer, Theory, Urbanization, US News | 1 comment
By:David A. Smith Over the last few months, I’ve been contributing posts to the Bipartisan Policy Center‘s blog, and when they posed an interesting question, I punched out my under-500-word answer with scarcely a moment’s thought: If I had more time, I’d have written fewer commandments? What lessons can the U.S. learn [...]