

“I am an innocent man,’ Billy Joel bellowed on his song of that name. “Oh yes, I am.” “Love your music!” Donald Trump tweeted in 2016 after the Bronx piano-tickler had dedicated performances of his 1974 tune ‘The Entertainer’ to the showman from Queens. Trump is an...
Robert Mueller and the delusion of America’s partisan media

Unsurprisingly, American consumers are picking up the bill for Trump’s trade war
Tariffs might be politically controversial. But their inadvisability is one of the few things that practically every economist can agree on. Unfortunately, the exceptional economist who proves the rule is Peter Navarro, who happens to be one of Donald Trump’s trade...
Unsurprisingly, American consumers are picking up the bill for Trump’s trade war

Real Estate Market Cycle Monitor – Fourth Quarter 2018 Analysis
The Physical Market Cycle Analysis of 5 Property Types in 54 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs). The 2018 economic expansion continued at a moderate pace with a slightly higher GDP growth rate than the past five years. Employment growth continued to increase at an...
Real Estate Market Cycle Monitor – Fourth Quarter 2018 Analysis

Diary of a Traveling Academic – When property sold for ten cents on the dollar
These last six months have been full of terrific opportunities for this travelling academic to feed her real estate addiction. First up was a trip home to Madison for the Wisconsin Real Estate Alumni Association. Since I hold three degrees from UW Madison, this...
Diary of a Traveling Academic – When property sold for ten cents on the dollar

Letter from Washington
FOMC Minutes — 2 PM Wednesday Fed Monetary Policy Report — 11 AM Friday 2019 U.S. Monetary Policy Forum, New York, NY: Fed Vice Chair Clarida, 12 PM Friday, “The Federal Reserve’s Review of Monetary Policy Strategies, Tools, and...
Letter from Washington