2008: RIP

It’s not that there was no good news from the year.  The surge in Iraq succeeded spectacularly; Islamic terrorists failed, again, to terrorize on US soil; anthropogenic global warming, as we enter our tenth consecutive cooling year, was delivered the final nail, leaving only the hysterics and The Oregonian as True Believing fans; and we’re treated […]

2009: Real Estate, the Economy and How We Got Here

YYYYAAAAAAWWWWNN.
YIKES!! What time is it?
…
There’s something inherently cleansing about endings and beginnings, even if superficial. Yesterday was certainly Wednesday, today Thursday just like any other week; yesterday it rained, today…it rained; yesterday the malls were open to capture the diminishing remnants of consumer confidence, today the malls are open … you get the […]

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