The Increasing Financialization of Germany
The FIRE sector capitalizes on Germany’s industrial decline as government diverts money from social programs to military.
Read more...The FIRE sector capitalizes on Germany’s industrial decline as government diverts money from social programs to military.
Read more...When the US housing crisis meets the looming insurance crisis, only government intervention will avert catastrophe.
Read more...Identifying a new source of climate change housing price risk: heat, as in too much.
Read more...Musings on the routes for China out of its economic problems and whether China will actually take them.
Read more...The West’s discomfort over China’s influence and economic stature is sometimes a bit too obvious.
Read more...College students are still unable to find housing despite enrollment dropping since the start of the pandemic, and a major price-fixing lawsuit against corporate landlords sheds light on why.
Read more...Why a story on the abuse of private power, here a security guard beating up the homeless on public property, does not go far enough.
Read more...In his latest paper, investment expert Richard Ennis continues showing how alternative investments destroy value.
Read more...Economists begin to admit that their models are wrong when it comes to anti-rent control arguments.
Read more...What if we convert redundant office space to affordable living space or public housing and quit with the return-to-office pressure?
Read more...America has the means to substantially alleviate homelessness but not the desire.
Read more...The data say many meaures of inflation have moderated and energy prices are down. Readers?
Read more...Mortgage predation is baaack! And the Wall Street Journal aids and abets it by choosing not to undertand the issues.
Read more...Oopsie! Still perceived-to-be-high housing prices, thanks to higher mortgage rates, is a landlord’s wet dream. Who’d have thunk it?
Read more...Clearing up misinformation about the new Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage fees, coming into effect May 1.
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