Commercial property sales plunge in New York City: Why should everyone care?
January 19, 2012
WSJ New York Real Estate | online.wsj.com
Why should this matter? Is this a case as NYC goes, so goes the rest of the Nation?
June 13, 2011
Indians work on Kashagan stake | www.upstreamonline.com
Shooting automobile sales rockets oil import bill giving country's leaders nightmares on the oil street.
Right Move Right Place Right Time Or Is It
April 17, 2011
BP Makes Huge Push Into India's Oil And Gas Industry | www.businessinsider.com
1. Growing population with growing income levels buying top model cars push consumption of fuels to new highs leading to search for resources even into the bowels of the Earth.
Commercial Real Estate Lenders Wants to Do What?
March 27, 2011
Commercial Real Estate Group Seeks Exclusion From Dodd-Frank | news.morningstar.com
"A commercial real estate trade group launched a push Wednesday 3/23 to make sure that most securities backed by commercial real estate loans are not subject to a new federal mandate requiring issuers of asset-backed securities to retain a portion of the risk on their books."
Delusional Commercial Real Estate Predictions
March 23, 2011
Deal Volume to Drive U.S. Commercial Real Estate Recovery, PWC Survey Says | www.bloomberg.com
Delusional (A false belief or opinion: labored under the delusion that success was at hand) Commercial Real Estate Predictions The subject article can only be considered wishful thinking at best or a blatant disregard to the reality of the overall economic situation facing the USA and the World and its impact on commercial real estate.
Scams and Frauds are foundations for Regulation
January 24, 2011
Accounting bodies to take swift action against guilty members | epaper.timesofindia.com
1. Accounting Professionals should be truly independent in the work they do and not be financially dependent on the companies they Audit.
CRE will be negatively impacted by slow earnings growth
January 10, 2011
Profits Face Headwinds | online.wsj.com
The United States Chamber of Commerce just emailed the following headline...Troubled Job Market Expected To Curtail Companies' Earnings Later This Year based upon the subject article published today in the WSJ.
Further Evidence CRE Optimism is jumping the Gun
January 7, 2011
Trepp: CMBS Delinquencies Hit Record High Despite Market Optimism | www.dsnews.com
As a follow-up to my post yesterday, further evidence things are not what the media propaganda machine says they are.
Happy Days are here again...Don't be fooled again CRE has a long way to go
January 6, 2011
CRE Sales Deal Volume Returning to 'Normal' Levels | www.costar.com
Every media outlet that reports on commercial real estate is priming the propaganda pump. Using percentages as a way to reflect the state of the real state market is not appropriate.
GSE Reform - The Future of Mortgage Finance
November 30, 2010
GSE reform might be better described as the development of a new United States Mortgage Funding System (USMFS). In this article a mortgage origination and sales process is suggested derived from business and structural elements of Government Sponsored Entities (GSEs), Federal Home Loan Banks, banking, banking regulation, and mortgage securitization.
ATMs could distribute prepaid Visa cards
January 23, 2012
PayPal can thrive as a standalone company
January 9, 2012
Europe's CO2 Emissions Trading System works, but it can be improved
December 16, 2011
European women wonder why their insurance premiums will increase
December 15, 2011
Can Verisk Analytics sell its advisory loss cost products overseas?
November 22, 2011