
The Analyst

I went down to the crossroads
Whichever way things are going, they’ll go a long way. Inflation was rediscovered in September. Up to that date the quoted REIT sector had risen 25%, rebounding as the economy re-opened against a...
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The Professor
Are tax increases popular?
Tax increases are bad fiscal policy, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they are politically unpopular. Indeed, many voices in the establishment...

The Professor
Are you ‘wasting’ paper?
I’m a heretic in a world where environmentalism is a leading religion. I think it’s OK to use a lot of paper and I generally ignore the little exhortation at the bottom of so...

The Historian
The Industrial Revolution was not a wash!
An economist once relayed to me a conversation that he had with his teenage niece regarding the content of her high school global history class. When he asked her about the...

The Economist
The UK economy: an ever-changing picture of work in progress, part two
To read The UK Economy – A picture of change, part one, visit https://www.propertychronicle.com/the-uk-economy-a-picture-of-change-part-one/. Before the present crisis, the UK...

Golden Oldie
On commission
This article was originally published in October 2018. The returns on most investments are purely financial. But some investments have other rewards. Buying art, for instance,...

The Analyst
REITs remain worth it
Sure, the sector suffered last year, but it’s overcome troubles before and will do so again. Real estate investment trusts, or REITs, were misunderstood for years after they...
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