

It’s time we did it again. There has been much talk about a potential inflation surge as countries lift pandemic restrictions and seek to resume normal economic activity. In recent months, US prices have risen more than 5% year-on-year. In the UK, price...
Consumer borrowing was heavily restricted in the 1940s to curb inflation

Existing single-family home sales rose in July but condo sales fell
Sales of existing homes rose 2.0% in July, to a 5.99 million seasonally adjusted annual (see top of first chart). Sales are up 1.5% from a year ago. Sales in the market for existing single-family homes, which account for about 88% of total existing-home sales, rose...
Existing single-family home sales rose in July but condo sales fell

The outlook for CEE commercial property
Poland offers attractive investment possibilities post-Covid. We have now undergone a year and half of unprecedented interference in all aspects of our lives including, of course, in business. In an attempt to combat the serious consequences of such mammoth...
The outlook for CEE commercial property

Stakeholders v stockholders
The notion that stakeholders and stockholders battle for control of major business corporations is an oversimplification of a much more complex reality involving managers, regulators, investors and social justice warriors (SJW), many of whom seem to have forgotten the...
Stakeholders v stockholders