New Virtues: Small, Simple, & Local(or, Bottom’s Up) Just as our political regeneration will happen locally, in counties and states that learn how to control themselves and demonstrate how to govern effectively in a time of limits, so will our economic regeneration. That will begin in someone’s garage, somebody’s kitchen . . . The comeback...Read More
Credit Crunch Casualties: Publicly-Traded Builders While Washington is focused on rescuing the financial dinosaurs, outside of Wall Street, the future appears to belong to much smaller, sleeker, and more mobile organisms. Specifically . . . birds. Take the home construction industry. For the last 20 years or so, size conferred a huge advantage. Big, publicly-traded...Read More
