Posts Tagged ‘ suburbs ’

Forget Buying in the Suburbs and Go Rent in the City

Jan 5th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Housing, Investing Strategies
It’s getting more expensive to live in Baltimore….at least if you’re a renter. According to a recent article in the Baltimore Sun rents are up more than 6% over what they were last year in the Baltimore metro area. If you count the drop in various concessions — like waived application ...read more

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Posted in Featured, Housing, Investing Strategies | 4 comments


The Coming Suburban Welfare State

Nov 10th, 2010 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
Some have predicted that high-energy costs, either due to decreasing supply of oil or costs associated with carbon emission mitigation, will soon push people out of their cars and onto public transportation. But there’s something else happening: people are getting sick of spending time in transit at all, making city living ...read more

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Posted in Economics, Featured, Politics | 30 comments


Survivalism in the Suburbs

Mar 31st, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Investing
Despite humanity surviving and thriving for thousands of years using commodity currencies the fiat currency proponents have effectively marshaled the press and academia to equate those in favor of a commodity currency with those counting down to Armageddon. When looking back through the corridors of history one lesson is clear ...read more

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Posted in Featured, Personal Investing | 75 comments


Leaving Behind Industrial Civilization

Mar 18th, 2010 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
Driving down the broad avenues of Cleveland, Ohio, was like flipping through the pages of a picture book about the rise and fall of our industrial empire. Where demolitions had not removed things — a lot was gone — stood the residue of a society so different from ours that ...read more

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Posted in Economics, Featured, Politics | 5 comments


Contraction and Electric Car Whimsy

Jul 16th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
The cat coming out of the bag this week -- a frazzled, flaming, rabid, death-dealing cat -- is the news that Goldman Sachs will announce impressive second-quarter profits, and set aside $18 billion or so for employee bonuses averaging $600,000 per head (though, of course, not evenly distributed among them).  ...read more

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Posted in Featured, Macro Economics | 6 comments