Demographics Will Rule Housing

Demographics Will Rule Housing

Current Events, Netbits

Alex J. Pollock provides an excellent picture and analysis of the bleak housing market (“On Housing, There Will Be More Lean Years Ahead,” op-ed, May 12). However, he neglects one other very important housing head wind that is inescapable: demographics....
Demographics Will Rule Housing

Another Global Warming Mistake?

Current Events, Netbits

The Earth has 657 more barrier islands than previously thought, according to a new global survey by researchers from Duke University and Meredith College in Raleigh, N.C. Barrier islands often form as chains of long, low, narrow offshore deposits of sand and sediment,...
Demographics Will Rule Housing

Nation of Takers, Not Makers

Current Events, Netbits

If you want to understand better why so many states—from New York to Wisconsin to California—are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, consider this depressing statistic: Today in America there are nearly twice as many people working for the government (22.5 million)...