Yesterday I had some interesting geographic involving the United States that prompted Tony H. to send a few more items. The closest state to Africa? […]
The United States is filled with thousands of pieces of geographic trivia. Alaska is more than twice as big as Texas. El Paso, Texas is […]
Does the Fed Chairman make a difference? Yes. Taylor and Powell’s names continue to be mentioned, although Trump is set to interview Janet Yellen Thursday. […]
Given the latest tax plan, will the mortgage interest deduction stay, but become worthless? The GOP blueprint would double the standard deduction for individuals and […]
An elderly gent was invited to his old friends’ home for dinner one evening. He was impressed by the way his buddy preceded every request to […]
Per Fed Chair Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve has been working to revise post-crisis financial regulations, making them less onerous and better suited to individual […]
The driving force of housing prices is supply and demand, and the demand is increasing. In the Bay Area, and for hundreds of miles north, […]
I mentioned yesterday that 6,762 institutions took a residential loan application in 2016, per Richey May’s HMDA dashboard data. For perspective, the 2007 HMDA data […]
6,762 institutions took a residential loan application in 2016, per Richey May’s HMDA dashboard data. That is a lot of lenders!! Another big figure is […]
Sometimes after leaving the airdrome on an airplane I will break out the credit card to access the web. There I sit, in steerage, and […]
