Showing posts with label Housing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Housing. Show all posts
Monday, January 2, 2023

Big Banks Predict Recession, Fed Pivot in 2023

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Hmm. Let's see if these predictions hit gold. At the Wall Street Journal , " More than two-thirds of economists at 23 major financi...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Escape From C.A.? Los Angeles and San Francisco Lead the Way (VIDEO)

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I love my state but Democrats have destroyed it. It's tragic. I can't leave. I'm locked down career-wise at my college, teaching...
Sunday, July 24, 2022

Conor Dougherty, Golden Gates

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At Amazon, Conor Dougherty,  Golden Gates: The Housing Crisis and a Reckoning for the American Dream .
Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Tony Dokoupil Covers Government Housing Policies Discriminating Against Black Americans (VIDEO)

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I was discussing previous my news watching habits , and one of the great recent stories, from CBS Evening News, it turns out, is the tale of...
Saturday, November 2, 2019

Can California Save Itself?

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I hope we see lots more articles like this in national publications. The news is getting out that the Dems' one-party dictatorship is ...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Boyle Heights Coffee Shop Targeted by 'Anti-Gentrification' Activists

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It's a small minority in the community, and they're going to hurt the neighborhood if successful. This is really bad. At the Los...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

And Remember, Tiny House Hunters...

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Heh. My wife and I have watched this show a few times, and it's fascinating. Of course, I'd never even consider one of these tiny...
Monday, December 14, 2015

Tarek and Christina El Moussa, Stars of HGTV's 'Flip or Flop', Cancel Events in Portland After Protests by Far-Left Rent Control Alliance

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Big mistake. If there was ever a cool inspiration for entrepreneur ship and business hustle, it's Tarek and Christina. They're rea...
Monday, October 12, 2015

The Challenges of Selling a Hollywood Home

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The owners of these early 20th century Hollywood homes think they've got a treasure trove of history, imparting tremendous value to thei...
Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Element Capital Buys Billions of Dollars of Treasury Securities

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Hmm... This is pretty interesting. At WSJ, " An Obscure Hedge Fund Is Buying Tens of Billions of Dollars of U.S. Treasurys ": ...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Bidding Wars Become the Norm as Orange County Rental Market Goes Off the Chain

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Bidding wars for rentals? No wonder my lease keeps going up. At CBS News 2 Los Angeles, "I t is not uncommon in the rental frenzy f...
Saturday, December 6, 2014

Chinese Beverly Hills

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At LAT, " HOW ARCADIA IS REMAKING ITSELF AS A MAGNET FOR CHINESE MONEY ": Most Los Angeles architects are lucky if they complete...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

Bank of America Agrees to Pay Record $16.65 Billion in Obama-Holder Housing Settlement Shakedown

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Look, we know what happened. Many analysts, including Gretchen Morgenson of the New York Times , in Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Am...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Ben Bernanke Struggled to Boost U.S. Economic Growth

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Bernanke's stepping down at the end of the month, and the Fed's supposed to ease off its economic stimulus policies, but we'll s...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

Escena in Palm Springs is First Tract House Development Since the 'Mad Men' Era

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Interesting. At the Los Angeles Times, " Escena Palm Springs: SoCal's first modern tract houses in decades ": Escena is be...
Friday, June 21, 2013

More on Yesterday's Federal Reserve Fallout

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At WSJ, " Turmoil Exposes Global Risks ": Worries about China and the Federal Reserve's plans rattled global markets for a s...
Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Banks Now Favor Short Sales Over Foreclosures

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Well, my wife and I did a short sale . We needed new financing if we were going to be able to stay in our home but the value had depreciated...
Saturday, June 30, 2012

Arizona Man Dies After Being Found Guilty of Burning Down His $3.5 Million Home

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I saw this out of the corner of my eye yesterday, when Fox News ran a brief blurb . But it never occurred to me that he killed himself. Peop...
Sunday, April 15, 2012

East Against West in California's Economic Recovery?

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As soon as I clicked the link, before scrolling down, I knew that was Newport Beach at the photo. See: " In California, Economic Gap ...
Sunday, December 4, 2011

China's State-Led Model Showing Signs of Trouble

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ICYMI, you might want to skim former SIEU chief Andy Stern's op-ed at the Wall Street Journal from earlier this week, " China'...
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