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Month in Review, December, 2015: Part 1, Housing-fueled disturbance at home
By: David A. Smith Pagedale, Missouri, and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia may seem unlikely peers, but aside from dividing up my entire December’s posts (a whopping 15 parts for Pagedale, a mere 8 for Saudi...
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Month in Review, December, 2015: Part 2, Housing-fueled disturbance abroad
By: David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] As shown in yesterday’s first half of the month-in-review, though housing is seldom the flashpoint for urban unrest, it is the source of urban...
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Vote bankruptcy in 2016!
By: David A. Smith When you don’t pay your electric bill, the company shuts off the power. When you exhaust your credit card, the company cuts you off. And when you’re unable to prepay old bond...
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Month in Review, February, 2016: Part 1, The micro of people
By: David A. Smith So bound up is housing in our conception of ourselves – perhaps it has to do with the trust we place in our space when we close our eyes for unconscious sleep – that inevitably we...
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Month in Review, February, 2016: Part 2, The macro of money
By: David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] As we saw yesterday with both the tiny house and the tiny rent-controlled apartment, ecosystems are more complex than they appear on the surface...
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