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…
On September 4th, 2021, The Biden Administration will stop sending unemployment checks to almost 9 million Americans. The blunder? Believing anecdotal evidence that they’ll find work. What if they don’t? We’re talking 5% of our working population. That’s one out of every 20 Americans who had a job in 2019.
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The Boston area, including Cambridge, escaped the Great Financial Recessional of 2007–2010 unscathed. As a grumpy boomer, I feel it should pay for its chutzpah in the next downturn. I may have to pound sand. The Boston area is once again reinventing itself.
This story told in triangles. …
Before the pandemic, one could look at a State’s finances and make arguments, one way or another, about its fiscal policy. For 99% of the population, boring stuff. However, most could agree that the accounting facts were there, for wonks to hash out. …
Here’s one of the founders of the recently launched Grid, Mark Bauman, quoted by the NYT: “We’re writing for anyone who wants or needs greater clarity on the most important stories of the day, and we think there are millions of people out there who fit that description.”
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Here’s Ukraine in my mental map. Heading north to south-east, Belarus, Ukraine, and Georgia. Mostly landlocked and unable to defend themselves.
Reading the New York Times on the topic of Ukraine is like reading the work of a political science student, the day after they learn how to find Ukraine…
All over Boston, new biotech buildings are going up. (I’m encompassing all health related businesses). Employees in the space have doubled to almost 100,000 in the past 15 years. The 5-year annual return of biotech stocks as been around 15% — not bad!
Goehring & Rozencwajg Associates are an investment research firm specializing in natural resources. They believe we’re heading into an energy shortage — a shortage in both supply and production that will create significant long-term investment opportunities (if you’re into that sort of thing). …
Many believe the Peloponnesian War happened in the past, roughly between 431 and 405 B.C.E. It didn’t. It was created in the future and transplanted back in time.
There are too many coincidences to be ignored. Someone must have gone back and wrote under the name of Thucydides, creating a…
As soon as Charlie said it, I kicked myself for not having made the direct connection. Green energy is producing inflation. How could it not? Put aside the benefits. If you build a new wind farm it will cost more than maintaining an existing oil rig.
As the lubricant of…
