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The perpetual tragedy of New York’s rent control

by Raymond C Niles | Jul 7, 2022 | Residential Investor, zEditor's pick

Last week (June 21), in its biannual circus, New York City housing regulators once again decided how much landlords will be able to raise rents. Despite inflation raging at a 40-year high of 8.6%, they decided on an increase of 3.25%. In real terms, this is a...

Happy birthday, America; now mind how you go

by Llewellyn King | Jul 5, 2022 | Investor's Notebook, zLead Article, zNewsletter

Martin Walker, the gifted former Washington correspondent of The Guardian, used to start his speeches saying that the Fourth of July wasn’t a time for sorrow for him, as it was a time when good British yeomen farmers in the colonies revolted against a German king and...

Censoring Edward Atkinson, the 19th century’s Elon Musk

by Robert E. Wright | Jun 14, 2022 | The Historian

As Americans continue to reel from years of dismisinfoganda, government censorship and government-inspired, if not directed, private censorship, they would do well to recall several previous episodes of government interference with the free flow of facts, including...

Making sense of monetary policy and the future of inflation

by James L Caton | Jun 13, 2022 | The Economist

High inflation rates have been making headlines since the beginning of the year. Inflation seems to have caught even investors by surprise. While I’m optimistic that inflation will fall over the next year, this belief is formed with the expectation that the stance of...

Real Estate Market Cycle Monitor – First Quarter 2022 Analysis

by Glenn Mueller | May 25, 2022 | The Professor

The physical market cycle analysis of five property types in 54 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs). So unique – GDP growth dropped 1.4% in 1Q22, yet the Federal Reserve still increased the Fed Funds rate by 0.5% instead of 0.25%, a jump they have not done in...