The Twin Cities Housing Market in One Number: “12,984” “Warmer weather heats up Minneapolis housing.” —CNBC (12/10/2015) It’s oddly fitting that, as 2015 winds down, many Buyers are saying the same thing now that they did at the beginning of the year. Namely, that there’s nothing for sale. And they’re not imagining: according to the...Read More
Cloudy Crystal Ball To get some historical perspective on today’s financial crisis — and possibly divine some hint of where things go from here — I’ve been skimming “This Time is Different: 8 Centuries of Financial Folly.” The co-authors, Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart, are highly pedigreed economics professors; almost half of their exhaustively researched,...Read More