“When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.”
John Maynard Keynes
Real Estate Investing, Finance & Economics, Politics, Planning & Architecture
“When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.”
John Maynard Keynes
Posted in Quotes.
– 24 January 2012
“We let men take wealth which is not theirs; if the seizure is ‘legal’ we call it high profits. And the profiteers help decide what is legal.”
W.E.B. DuBois
Posted in Quotes.
– 1 November 2011
“Truth is beautiful, without a doubt; but so are lies.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted in Quotes.
– 27 October 2011
Sustainable Cities – Sustainable Cities Collective is an editorially independent, moderated community for leaders of major metropolitan areas, urban planning and sustainability professionals. We look to aggregate content and provide resources for all who work in or are interested in urban planning, sustainable development and urban economics. Looking at issues such as transportation, building practices, community planning & development, education, water, health and infrastructure, we hope to create a community where people can get involved and learn about the advances in how cities are becoming smarter and greener in the 21st century.
Design Observer – Design Observer, and its related channels, Observatory, Change Observer, Places and Observer Media, are owned and operated by Observer Omnimedia LLC, and are collectively referred to here as The Design Observer Group Sites. Places: Forum of Design for the Public Realm is published by the Design History Foundation.
Development Impact – This blog is maintained by four researchers from the Development Research Group of the World Bank. Its aim is to cover all things related to impact evaluations and evaluative research: new papers, planned or ongoing evaluations, methodological issues, and stories from people conducting evaluations around the world. In doing so, we hope that the blog will fill a niche and serve as a platform for serious discussion and be much more than a news aggregator for impact evaluations. The blog is aimed at both the end users and the practitioners of evaluation research. While many of the posts and discussions may center on the field of development economics (and be written from an economist’s perspective), we will also be interested in evidence from other fields, particularly political science, sociology, psychology, and the biomedical sciences. We encourage all readers to not only participate in the discussions by commenting on blog posts, but also sending ideas and materials for blogs, as well as for guest blogging.
National Commercial Real Estate News- US and UK real estate news from CoStar Real Estate Group – CoStar Group, Inc. (NASDAQ — CSGP) is commercial real estate’s leading provider of information, analytic and marketing services. Founded in 1987, CoStar conducts expansive, ongoing research to produce and maintain the largest and most comprehensive database of commercial real estate information. Our suite of online services enables clients to analyze, interpret and gain unmatched insight on commercial property values, market conditions and current availabilities. Headquartered in Washington, DC, CoStar maintains offices throughout the U.S. and in Europe with a staff of approximately 1,500 worldwide, including the industry’s largest professional research organization.
Posted in Other Interesting.
– 20 October 2011
“Better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.”
John Maynard Keynes
Quoted in “Capitalism 4.0″ by Anatole Kaletsky
Posted in Quotes.
– 18 October 2011
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Upton Sinclair
Posted in Quotes.
– 18 October 2011
EconLog – Cato Institute oriented site featuring Bryan Caplan, Arnold Kling and David Henderson
Economix – NY Times economic blogs
Europe Real Estate – Real Estate Publishers (REP) is a multi-media publishing, research and consultancy firm with a pan-European scope and an international orientation. In a matter of years, Real Estate Publishers has developed into a leading international player in the area of real estate media.
Infrastructurist – U.S. bridges, highways, railroads, etc.
On the Economy – Jared Bernstein joined the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in May 2011 as a Senior Fellow. From 2009 to 2011, Bernstein was the Chief Economist and Economic Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, executive director of the White House Task Force on the Middle Class, and a member of President Obama’s economic team. Jared Bernstein’s areas of expertise include federal and state economic and fiscal policies, income inequality and mobility, trends in employment and earnings, international comparisons, and the analysis of financial and housing markets.
Landscape + Urbanism – Landscape architecture & urbanism, ecological urbanism , vegetated architecture, urban agriculture, cities, urban history & theory, mapping & other related concepts of urbanism.
NAMA Wine Lake - This is a deliberately anonymous blog to allow postings which are untainted by any established interest in Irish banking, property or government administration.
New Economic Perspectives – This website offers policy advice and economic analysis from a group of professional legal scholars, and financial market practitioners . We started this blog in order to weigh in on the serious challenges facing the global economy following the financial meltdown in 2007. We aim to provide an accurate description of the cause(s) of the current meltdown as well as some fresh ideas about how policymakers — here and abroad — should address to the continued weakness in their economies. Our approach, which has been dubbed “Modern Money Theory” or “The Kansas City Approach,” builds on the work of Abba P. Lerner, John Maynard Keynes and Hyman P. Minsky. Above all, we are careful to provide analyses and policy recommendations that are applicable under a modern, fiat money system.
Posted in Links.
– 3 June 2011
Speaks for itself:
“With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have realize what that implies. It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery. It means that you’re going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurses.”
Sen. Rand Paul (GOP-KY) as reported by Alex Seitz-Wald on 11 May 2011 on ThinkProgress
Posted in Public Policy.
– 11 May 2011
Ezra Klein – Washington Post columnist – “an opinionated blog on economic policy, collapsing banks, cap and trade, health care reform and pretty much anything else you can attach a chart to. His blog points to the hottest policy ideas on the Web and provides his own up-to-the-minute take. Before coming to The Post, he was an associate editor at the American Prospect. Klein has appeared as a guest on CNN, MSNBC, NPR and C-SPAN and lots of online radio shows you’ve never heard of.”
The Economic Analyst – Canadian economics especially on the Canadian housing & credit bubbles
Posted in Links.
– 6 May 2011
“I’m all that I pretend to be!”
Regine / “Living Single”
Posted in Quotes.
– 29 April 2011