In a functioning housing market, something like 10% of properties are empty at any one time. The shit ones are unrentable/unsellable. It’s so long since we had a decent housing market that people hav… (View Post)

The evidence is (from countries that didn’t react) that the sick and dying would overwhelm the hospitals. See Northern Italy. As @rcs1000 keeos pointing out - after that, countries that didn’t “lock … (View Post)

The reason why we have a soaring market in property is that the Government rations home construction. (View Post)

More that the scale of things changed. US potential productive capacity had been larger than anyone else on the planet for a while. WWII simply turbocharged them getting there. It wasn’t just destruc… (View Post)

The whole Republican Party is tarnished with a Trumpism. The Epstein tarnish is another set - which takes in a large chunk of both parties. Hence the calls from people in both parties - “Prosecute th… (View Post)