Been meaning to write about real estate for a few weeks now, but somehow haven’t gotten around to it. Was on Rortybomb today – great site, worth checking out – and Mike had a post about the peculiar lack of a housing bubble in Texas. Here is Dallas real estate compared with Phoenix on Case-Shiller:
Archive for April, 2009
Texas Real Estate
Posted in Housing Policy on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jane, You Ignorant Slut
Posted in Middle East, Military, War on Terror on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jane Harman (D-CA), the minority leader of the House Intelligence Committee before the 2006 midterm elections, should have a special appreciation for the NSA’s signals intelligence ability. After all, she was one of the folks who approved the government’s warrantless wiretap program. War on Terror and all. Well, the good folks in Fort Meade have [...]
If I Had a Billion Dollars
Posted in Inspirational, Miscellaneous on April 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I would be just as lame as I am now. However, thanks to Egotastic, we get to see how Richard Branson spends his time on Necker Island. It is not healthy to think about, and it is not safe for work, both due to content and the possibility of throwing yourself out your office window. [...]
Flinch
Posted in Industrial Policy on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After all the promise that the government was prepared to take a harder line with the auto companies, here we go: General Motors and Chrysler are to get more loans from the US treasury as the troubled carmakers work on plans to try and make themselves viable. The two Detroit, Michigan-based giants are seeking to [...]
Jay-Z?
Posted in Drugs on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Interesting times when Jay-Z makes more sense on Michael Phelps and marijuana than the government: “You look at all these people who graduated from Princeton and Harvard, who are supposed to be pillars of the community, every day [they're] in the newspaper arrested for some kind of financial fraud,” Jay-Z explained. “Then you look at [...]
Another Awful Idea
Posted in Meltdown, Obama, Tim Geithner on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Good Lord, the Treasury sure is resourceful when it comes to dumb ideas. Or, rather, it keeps insisting on rolling out the same rejected ideas under different names, in the hope that somehow one will escape attention and kick the problem down the road. The latest iteration is the idea that the way to inject [...]
Gossip Girl
Posted in Miscellaneous on April 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I think we all understand that there are some men who will take advantage of the teaching relationship to try to have sex with young girls. We’re pretty clear that those guys have to go to jail, and after that stay well away from children: Over the past few years, we have started to see [...]
Washington?
Posted in Military on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I bet Santa Anna would have appreciated the heads-up Davy Crockett was fighting at the Alamo against the boys in Washington. Could have saved an awful lot of trouble.
LiLo
Posted in Miscellaneous on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Internet dating…there’s someone for everyone…
Best Trophy in Sports
Posted in Hockey on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Shame the sport is so poorly run. The trophy alone is worth watching the Cup playoffs.
