Let’s start with Caterpillar, the maker of earth moving equipment that has for years been the poster child for global slowdown. Every quarter was worse
Cornflakes and milk may or may not be getting more expensive, but some higher-profile things are rocking like it’s 1979. Houses, for example: Home prices
Real estate tends to ride an emotional rollercoaster, as anyone who made it through the 2000s can attest. But in some ways the current market
For a while there it looked like the blow-off top of this expansion was somewhere in the future. Now it’s starting to look like 2017
Last week I ran into a friend whom I’d been worrying about. He’s a real estate appraiser and his work had been drying up as
US growth, such as it is, has lately been driven by a handful of hot sectors. Car sales have set records, high-end real estate is
In his book The Postcatastrophe Economy, iTulip’s Eric Janszen notes that financial bubbles don’t repeat. That is, yesterday’s bubble is never tomorrow’s because hot money
One of the many, many lessons we should have learned from the 2009 crash is that an economy driven by inherently-unstable – and completely unproductive
They say that one sign of creeping old age is that memories from past decades are more vivid than those from past days or weeks.
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