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Market Mad House

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche

daniel November 14, 2017February 16, 2020 An astonishing 49.8% of Millennials said they would give up the right to vote in the next two presidential elections in exchange for student-loan forgiveness, Around 43.6% said they would give up ridesharing apps like Lyft and Uber in order to get student loans forgiven., Credible, student loan debt, Student Loan Debt Explains Bernie’s Popularity, Student Loan Debt it is worse than you think, The Student Loan, The Student Loan Crisis is worse than You Think, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont)

The Student Loan Crisis is worse than You Think

An astonishing 49.8% of Millennials said they would give up the right to vote in the next two presidential elections in exchange for student-loan forgiveness, a Pollfish survey conducted by the loan refinancer Credible found.

Politics

daniel October 13, 2017 America might have a shortage of several million homes or more, Housing Crisis, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party Conference, multigenerational battle, nation’s current housing index, The American Corbyn is Coming, The Housing Shortage will become a Political Issue, The Housing Shortage will Ignite Generational Warfare, two generations are on a collision course

America’s Destructive Housing Crisis

The housing shortage is likely to become an issue that will reshape the political landscape. That’s already happened in the United Kingdom, where observers think far-left Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will become Prime Minister in the near fut

My Thoughts

daniel September 30, 2017 Collapse of Marriage, How Ideology Stops us from Discussing the Marriage Divide, Marriage Crisis, Marriage Divide, The Mystery of America’s Marriage Crisis, Why Income Inequality and the Marriage Divide will Get Worse, Why nobody wants to talk about the Collapse of Marriage

The Mystery of America’s Marriage Crisis

Only 26% of poor adults between 18 and 55; and 39% of working-class adults in the same age group, were married according to data compiled by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and Opportunity America. That marks a dramatic cultural shift, because as recently as 1990; 51% of poor adults and 57% of working-class adults were married, New York Times Upshot Writer Claire Cain Miller noted.

Market Insanity

daniel August 5, 2017 74.9% of the Airbnb hosts were whit, Airbnb Hosts in New York are five times more likely to be white than black., but 89.7% of the area’s residents were black, economic benefits form Airbnb are four times more likely to go to white people, effects of Airbnb and the housing crisis, Is Airbnb a Scapegoat for the Housing Crisis?, Is Airbnb Driving Gentrification and Harming African Americans?, Some damning data against Airbnb, The Financial Crisis Facing Airbnb Hosts

The Financial Crisis Facing Airbnb Hosts

Airbnb Hosts in New York are five times more likely to be white than black.

White Airbnb hosts in black neighborhoods in New York earned $159.70 million from Airbnb. Meanwhile, African American hosts only earned $48.3 million; less than a third of the revenue the whites made.

Opportunities

daniel July 1, 2017July 1, 2017 A Real Stimulus for Average Americans, America no longer has a “housing shortage;”, Extend federal mortgage insurance, Extend the mortgage tax deduction, housing problems are becoming a national catastrophe, housing voucher available to all persons and households, Make rental payments tax deductible income, mortgage tax deduction, Offer government-subsidized low-interest mortgages, Possible Solutions for America’s Housing Crisis, Some Solutions for America’s Housing Crisis, voucher payment, voucher program would increase the housing supply, Why it would Work

Some Solutions for America’s Housing Crisis

One result of such programs would be that large numbers of everyday people; doctors, lawyers, schoolteachers, construction workers, contractors, cops, firemen, insurance agents, realtors, janitors, factory workers, farmers, truck drivers etc., would start building or remodeling units for affordable housing.

Opportunities

daniel June 7, 2017 As VHS Dies Videos Disappear Forever, BetaSP, digitize content, Magnetic Media Crisis, Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound, MPOPS, Piql, The Race to Save Analog Video from the Magnetic Media Crisis, Unimatic and VHS, XFR Collective or Transfer Collective

The Race to Save Analog Video from the Magnetic Media Crisis

The problem is coming to a head in what preservationists are calling the “Magnetic Media Crisis” because most videotapes are now 20 to 30 years old or older. Most of the tapes were designed to last for 20 to 30 years, but a lot of archivists note that many of them wear out much faster.

Market Insanity

daniel April 10, 2017 Bank of International Settlements, BIS, BIS Quarterly Review for March 2017, Canada Mortgage, Canada’s debt service rate, danger signs in Canada’s economy, Is Canada due for a Financial Crisis?, massive housing bubble, Not Just Canada, The Danger from Canada’s Real Estate Bubble

Is Canada due for a Financial Crisis?

The debt to GDP ratio is a comparison of the amount of debt in a nation to national wealth. The BIS team considers any ratio over 10% dangerous and a signal that a financial crisis is brewing, The Financial Post reported. Canada’s ratio now exceeds the danger level by 7.4% and it has risen since Fall 2016.

Politics

daniel January 1, 2017January 1, 2017 create a country in which all Americans can afford a decent home, current property-tax system hurts lower income people, finance construction of low-income housing, High Speed Rail, Homelessness, Housing Crisis, housing shortage, Hyperloop, low-interest loans and tax breaks, measures to alleviate the housing shortage, serious housing shortage that threatens the economy, steps that the federal government can take to alleviate the housing crisis, Steps the Federal Government can take to Deal with the Housing Shortage, Tax high rents and home prices, zoning makes it impossible to build multifamily housing

Steps the Federal Government can take to alleviate the Housing Crisis

Some parts of the United States, such as California, are now facing a serious housing shortage that threatens the economy.
Economic growth in the Golden State will slow in coming years economists, at the University of California (UC) at Riverside and UCLA concluded. Job growth in California will slow to 1.7% in 2017 and 1.1% in 2018 largely because of high-housing costs; a report from UC Riverside forecast, California’s job creation rate was 2% in 2016.

The Death Spiral

daniel December 14, 2016 $1.43 trillion in pension obligations, $1.91 trillion pension shortfall, $2 Trillion Public Pension Crisis, alternatives to pension systems, America’s $2 Trillion Public Pension Crisis, California Owes $1 Trillion in Pension Obligations, California Public Employees’ Retirement System, CalPERS, Cut pension benefits, deferred maintenance, Eliminate pensions, elimination of the pension system, Expand Social Security, How the Pension Crisis Hurts Communities, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Some Potential Solutions for the Public Pension Crisis, Why nobody wants to talk about the Public Pension Crisis

America’s $2 Trillion Public Pension Crisis

The ultimate nightmare of the public pension crisis would be governments suddenly stop paying pensions. Under that scenario some retirees would go from a comfortable retirement with a boat and a second house on the lake to sleeping on their children’s couch.

Politics

daniel October 2, 2016October 2, 2016 48.1 million Americans live in a household that is food insecure, attacking welfare, economic failure, Feeding America, food bank, food insecure, food insecurity, Food Stamps, How Fear of Welfare Makes Poverty Worse, marginally food insecure, poverty is getting worse in America, Technological Unemployment, very food insecure, Why Aren’t the Presidential Candidates talking about Poverty?

The Crisis the Presidential Candidates Refuse to Talk About: Poverty

This anecdotal evidence indicates that poverty is getting worse in America but the presidential candidates refuse to talk about it. Indeed they are actively avoiding just like almost every other candidate running for office today. One has to ask why?