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Fight club with Nicholas Kristof and John Tamny

by Martin Schwarzburg | Apr 1, 2021 | The Macro View, zLead Article, zNewsletter

Who’s right about the best way to reduce child poverty? Reading through the recent intellectual proxy fight between NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof and Fox News panelist John Tamny (Property Chronicle, 22 March), I couldn’t help but recall a discussion I had with an...

The dynamics of Pacific Rim office property

by Robbie Lin | Mar 31, 2021 | The Analyst, zLead Article, zOurWriters2

Although the covid pandemic has had a major impact on the Pacific Rim office markets, Real Capital Analytics reports show that considerable regional real estate investment attention has focused on the traditional office sector in recent years. Within a Pacific Rim...

Par for the course – hitting the links for industrial sites

by Matthew Walaszek | Mar 30, 2021 | The Analyst, zLead Article, zOurWriters1

Abandoned golf courses are ripe for redevelopment and offer ideal locations for distribution. E-commerce fulfilment does not usually trigger an image of grassy meadows and gently rolling landscapes, but there’s a growing convergence as industrial developers search for...

California’s wealth tax won’t work – the UK shouldn’t copy it

by Philip Booth | Mar 29, 2021 | The Professor

This article was originally published in August 2020. There is no doubt that California is in a big fiscal hole. It relies heavily on income taxes from wealthy taxpayers making tax receipts volatile. Even before the covid crisis struck, commentators were predicting...

Massachusetts bans dancing like it’s 1684

by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Mar 24, 2021 | The Historian, zLead Article, zOtherDiversions

The state of Massachusetts has now entered Phase III Step 2 of a reopening, which means all sorts of amazing nonsense cobbled together by people with power who imagine that their high-end credentials grant them the intelligence to outsmart a virus. Not that many...