Trump's signature policy would frighten Americans without improving the immigration situation. “The crops are all in and the peaches are rotten/ The oranges piled in their creosote dumps” — Woody Guthrie Ever since Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden and the Democrats shifted to sunny, positive...
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The Analyst
China Property – Spring has sprung
China’s reopening and the abandonment of stringent domestic Covid restrictions prompts thoughts on prospects for the property market in China: after the difficulties of 2022,...
Political Insider
Are GOP Presidential Contenders Prepared to Take On the Fed?
As the GOP’s presidential hopefuls formulate their national economic agendas, one question looms large: What are they going to do about the Federal Reserve? America’s...
Residential Investor
Housing and heritage aren’t mutually exclusive –a few basic rules can help get the balance right
Anyone trying to follow the latest political debate over housing, urban intensification and development can be forgiven for feeling confused. The National Party’s newly announced...
Technology
There’s more to AI than “killing all humans”
If increasingly panic-stricken headlines are to be believed, Artificial Intelligence poses an existential threat to humanity. The Prime Minister’s advisor on AI has warned that...
Investor's Notebook
Media independence does not really mean media independence
A small scandal has raised ire on social media after Twitter added the mention of “publicly funded media” under the twitter handle of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)...
Technology
Automation risks creating a two-tier workforce of haves and have-nots
The recent news that BT would reduce its workforce by as many as 55,000 by 2030, including about 10,000 jobs replaced by artificial intelligence (AI), is part of a growing...
Residential Investor
Thanks to migration, we’re running up a down escalator when it comes to housing
Immigration statistics published by the ONS in May show that, when it comes to housing, we’re stuck running up the down escalator – one that is getting faster and faster. ...
The Economist
We Are Measuring Inflation All Wrong: Non-Housing Inflation is Very Low
The Bureau of Labor Statistics measures changes in housing costs in ways that change slowly and arrive too late. Studies from the BLS, Federal Reserve Banks and prominent...
The Economist
A few bad apples?
Or is the whole financial orchard at risk? In the past two months, four US banks – with combined assets of over $450 billion – have failed. Credit Suisse, the once venerable...