The Orion Effect: When Business Won’t Defend Its Own Rational Interests
There is a scene in Monty Python’s Holy Grail that, sometimes, seems to be the story of my life. A King is trying to be sure his son follows through with an arranged marriage. The son, Herbert (or Alice) doesn’t want to go through with it. As the King is leaving, he gets two of […]
The Stranger: More Fun With Real Estate Conspiracy Theories
Last week, we got the jump on a really misleading “report” that, once again, somehow, a relatively small number of real estate transactions are distorting the entire housing market. The Stranger felt compelled to respond with a flailing post that mentions my name 8 times but really doesn’t show how around 1,600 units of expensive […]
Countering Conspiracy Theories About Luxury Housing Ownership
Another “report” has emerged about housing in Seattle and the Seattle Times has a story about its claims that somehow less than two thousand pricey units are somehow destroying the whole housing economy in the city and making life hard for poor people. It’s nonsense. I caught wind of the 51 page analysis of just […]
