Category: Spain

Month in Review, January 2013: Part 2, To the global

14 March, 2013 (14:38) | Bankruptcy, Cambridge, Detroit, Elderly, Euro, Global markets, Greece, Humor, MEEs, Month in review, Public housing, Redevelopment, Rent control, Spain, Speculation |

By:David A. Smith   [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]   Yesterday’s Part 1 of this review on the localized issues covered in January brought us to the problem of one elderly mother and her daughter and son-in-law, an issue that is confronting China (and even more, Japan) at a scale far surpassing our needs here [...]

Month in Review, January 2013: Part 1, From the local

14 March, 2013 (14:34) | Bankruptcy, Cambridge, Detroit, Elderly, Euro, Global markets, Greece, Humor, MEEs, Month in review, Public housing, Redevelopment, Rent control, Spain, Speculation |

[Previous Months in Review available here: Dec 12, Nov 12, Oct 12, Sep 12, Aug 12, Jul 12, Jun 12, May 12]   By:David A. Smith   No interval is so gloomy as to be entirely without its lighter side, and for a New England Patriots fan despondent at the team’s elimination from the playoffs, [...]

Prospero’s Europe: Part 2, living in a cloud of smog

6 February, 2013 (09:00) | Austerity, Economics, EU, Eurozone, Greece, Spain |

By:David A. Smith   [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]   In Yesterday’s Part 1, we saw that Europe’s extremities – Spain, profiled in the Wall Street Journal (December 28, 2012) (red font),  and Greece, written up in the Wall Street Journal (January 11, 2013) (blue font) – are dying a slow economic death from capital [...]

Prospero’s Europe: Part 1, Too broke to pay for fuel

5 February, 2013 (12:30) | Austerity, Economics, Ecosystem, EU, Eurozone, Greece, Spain |

By:David A. Smith   Illegal logging has surged in Greece as households suffering through three years of recession hoard wood to burn during cold winter days.   Though the body’s metabolism is not conscious, our cellular automata are rational: frostbite, gangrene, and starvation kill our extremities first, and the body lets them die to preserve [...]

Month in Review, November, 2012: Part 2, Here at home

11 January, 2013 (10:00) | Argentina, Camden, China, Euro, Foreclosure, Global news, Haiti, Homeless, Month in review, Municipal bankruptcy, Non-Profits, NYCHA, Paris, Public housing, Spain, US News |

[Previous Month in Reviews available here: Oct 12, Sep 12, Aug 12, Jul 12, Jun 12, May 12]   By:David A. Smith   [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]   As we saw in yesterday’s Part 1, affordable housing and urban troubles abound globally, but we need look no further than our front stoop to find [...]