Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday’s post, quoting extensively from Michael McLaughlin’s How-To-Steal-Big Manual, which I hope he writes in the extended jail time that I fervently hope he serves, we observed that stealing from a public agency requires three linked steps: Capture, Bleaching, and Exfiltration. Sources for [...]
[We interrupt last week’s post about France’s bureaucracy to bring a story whose relevance spiked last Friday. We’ll return to France when this post is done; I have every confidence the bureaucracy will still be pondering its response.] By:David A. Smith Last week, depressed by his venality and contempt for the system, although having [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday’s Part 2 on the bureausclerosis choking France’s economy, using as source material a small-scale article in the Washington Post (April 16, 2013), zeroed in on the debilitating effects of excessive regulation from afar and identified some principles of regulatory balance [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday we saw, via an article in the Washington Post (April 16, 2013), that France’s centralized government (and behind it, the even-more-remote European Commission) so distrusts anyone it does business with that it has promulgated at least 400,000 norms and rules, all of them violating [...]
By:David A. Smith When Yeats wrote Things fall apart, the center cannot hold, he could never envisioned the rise of the Bureaucratic State, which believes that lack of touch is no reason to loosen one’s grip on the capillaries – and so, unless the acquisitive tendency is checked, one reaches an end state such [...]
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