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"War Games" Show Fed Worried About Commercial Real Estate, Interest Rates; Fed Weighs Consequences of "Macroprudential Tools"

MishTalk

Commercial real-estate prices have continued to rise and are projected to far exceed levels they reached before the 2007-09 financial crisis, adjusted for inflation. Perhaps the most challenging part of the discussion related to monetary policy. But Neither Greenspan nor Bernanke saw the real estate bubble until it was too late.

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Sam Zell Warns Recession Coming, Provides Opinions on 22 Topics Including Fed Tools, Equities, Real Estate, Energy, China, Brazil, Mexico, Climate Change

MishTalk

Zell discussed a wide variety of topics from the Federal Reserve rate hike, the risk of a near-term recession, real estate, energy, and various foreign investment ideas. And it's, you know, it's a little bit like real estate. I mean we made a fortune because we bought real estate at a discount to replacement cost.

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. The project has provided a laboratory for testing practical policies and initiatives that can promote inclusive prosperity. Given the rising cost of urban land, real estate markets cannot satisfy this need on their own.

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BlockChain: Opportunities for the Consulting Industry

Tom Spencer

The potential uses of smart contracts are almost limitless: collecting taxes, buying goods on eBay, selling real estate, or enabling migrants to send money back to family overseas. Blockchain could also help to reduce fraud because every transaction is recorded and distributed on the ledger for anyone to see.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: D.C. City Council Proposes.

MishTalk

Patrick Housing Crash News Top Housing and Commercial Real Estate News. Bay Area Real Estate Trends. an hour wages, but only for retailers with corporate sales of $1 billion or more. The response from the worlds largest retailer is hardly unexpected. The Real Problem. Ludwig von Mises Institute.

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Chinese Malls Hit With Low Traffic, Rising Vacancies, Plunging Rent, Massive Overcapacity

MishTalk

Rising vacancy rates and plummeting rents are increasingly common in Chinese malls and department stores, despite official data showing a sharp rebound in retail sales that helped the world's second-largest economy beat expectations in the third quarter. Malaysia-based Parkson (3368.HK),

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Australia's Mining Bust Turns Towns Into Ghost Towns; Expect Interest Rate "Shock and Awe"

MishTalk

Down the road, electronics retailer Colin Fountain speaks of the boom in the past tense. Further west in Chinchilla, the effects of the mining construction boom have mainly been felt in the real estate sector, where rents and house prices doubled from cashed-up workers arriving in the town. I’ve definitely noticed a slowdown.