The Foreign Investment Real Estate Bubble

Does this maybe look like a another bubble? Commercial real estate debt is widely held by banks and other financial institutions. What happens to their liquidity when this bubble bursts?

Energy Prices Continue To Decline Despite Governemnt

The American Enterprise Institute charts how the cost of energy has become a smaller and smaller portion of consumer spending over time. This has not happened because of windmills and solar panels that government keeps trying to push and subsidize. It has happened because new technology like hydraulic fracturing has made available more and cheaper oil and gas.

Demographics Spell Slow Growth for Housing

The demographic future does not bode well for the housing industry or consumption goods such as food and clothing.

What If Only Taxpayers Could Vote?

Right now any American citizen who is alive (and some who are not alive or not citizens) can vote. What if you actually had to pay income taxes in order to vote?  CNN actually went back and looked at the 2012 presidential vote and recalculated the result based on that premise. Romney would have won in a landslide. Which explains why Democrats are so anxious to expand the numbers of people who don't pay income taxes. For those who don't pay taxes, the cost of more "free stuff" is zero.

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MInimum Wage Bites Restaurant Workers in DC

What could possibly have happened in Washington DC that would have caused restaurant employment to drop suddenly this year? Anyone? Anyone? Buehler?