The Russian Government and Military was not prepared for Putin’s gambit. Or certainly not prepared for the worst-case scenario. Now that it’s here, they need time to agree on a new government once Putin is removed. They’re in a race against time. They have to weigh the advantage of taking…

The next time the housing market crashes it may not come back for decades. I was born in 1961. Let’s look at the U.S. demographics of the time, above. Read from the bottom up. We all start in the bottom demographic 0–4, then move up into old age above. There I am, in the 0 to 4-years-old cohort, 22 million strong. Indeed, the largest…

Do humans thrive above the seventh floor? Will all these “luxury” high-rises make cities better? Sure, skyscrapers have defined cities for over a century, but can cities survive a complete change-over? Why is that never questioned? Maybe nobody wants it — will want it. Perhaps boomers, seeing, in their lifetimes, so much wealth created through real estate…

If there’s one thing both the left and right agree on in Western media — Sri Lanka has a bad government and needs a new one. Perhaps that’s overstating it. The West doesn’t care about Sri Lanka in the first place. Western journalism can’t conceive of a world where Sri…

The defining characteristic of a good judge, either on the Supreme Court or as a child adjudicating a fight, is that they are impartial. A bad judge isn’t necessarily one who doesn’t have a bias, but one who doesn’t work tirelessly to remove it. From an early age we become…

David “Deflation” Rosenberg has been predicting short-term inflation followed by long-term deflation. In other words, he predicts boomers won’t be priced out of nice neighborhood restaurants. They won’t get priced out of getting a new car every three years. They won’t end up taking senior-discounted bus trips with the unwashed…

In some of my pieces I’ve suggested that Ukraine may splinter into terrorist groups that attack Russia. I go where my thoughts take me, even if they make me uncomfortable. I ended up in a conversation with someone on YouTube, about a video by Vlad Vexler (who I highly recommend)…

My Rational Prediction Predicting is futile but in the service of your amusement. On Victory Day I expect Putin to claim the Russian Special Operation a success. He’ll say much work needs to be done, but will be vague about it. …

Have Small Real Estate Developers Been Priced Out, The American Work Ethic Be Damned An individual home builder commented on my first Real Estate Glut story. I wrote it as thought piece, but he took it literally. After some back and forth he blocked me. I’m ashamed to say, I wrote this as one of my replies: I thought people in the South were…