This article is the third or fourth in a series. See the bottom for links to the other articles. This article discusses purchasing a foreclosed house, a 403k loan, and considerations on small, medium, and large multifamily home buying. I.…
Category: Economics
Finding Extra Dollars to Finance Real Estate
I previously wrote about finding lower priced housing, but low prices still aren’t free. At some point you have to pay up. This article assembles a number of traditional and less traditional funding sources you may not have considered. Some…
Tagged with: commercial loan, equity, fha, finance, lending, loans, navy federal credit union, purchase home, real estate, va
Lower Home Prices, Part 2
I recently wrote about 6 ways to lower home price, but not all prices compared apples to apples because some options were turnkey, or move-in ready, while others weren’t. This article looks at move-in ready prices and finds that modular…
Lower House Prices
I recently wrote that 3D printed houses should start to become relatively accessible around 2020. This article discusses a few techniques other than 3D printing which can drive down house costs. I look at the home price problem as a home…
Tagged with: construction 3d printing, home price, housing, Industrialized Home, modular home, rent, tiny home, tiny houses
The Energy Conversation is Overrated
In 2013 I talked about how the planet would easily accommodate food and water for 9 billion people in 2040. In this article, I argue that the current Malthusian scare about running out of fossil fuels is equally overblown and…
Tagged with: alarmism, anthropogenic, climate change, david friedman, energy, fossil fuels, global warming, malthus, malthusian, nasa, paris agreement, regulation, renewable energy
Why It’s Important to Capture Hours Worked, Even on Salary
This article quickly notes a few reasons why you, as an employee or an employer, will want the full hours of work recorded on any project, even for salaried employees. Some firms have a practice of limiting the hours recorded…
3D Printed Houses in the US by 2020
ICON and New Story debuted a 3D printed house at SXSW. 3D printed houses have been around for over a year, and kind of around since 2014, but they have been made outside the US and non-compliant with US building…
Why Tax Cuts are Great Even if They Don’t Improve X
This article is in specific rebuttal to a recent WaPo piece complaining that the Trump Tax Cuts aren’t going to work. I briefly review the claims in the article, the tax plan itself, and some general theory. I. The Claims…
Tagged with: business investment, economic growth, gdp per capita, great recession, income, quintile, tax policy, trump, wages
MB = MC as Weak Analysis
I was scrolling through some of the older things I said on Facebook and found this gem, which I stand by: This was in the particular context of bitcoin price forecasting, which I am notoriously good at. See here and…
Yes, I Called the 2018 eth/btc Rebound
I previously predicted what would happen with Ethereum and Bitcoin at a temporal distance (here, here, here, and here, for example). I then called it again live at the turning point: Here’s today: As one friend noted, I was one…
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