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Recovery Riches: The U.S. Housing Market Gained $11 Trillion in Value in the 2010s Over the past decade, California’s housing stock grew in value by more than $3.1 trillion, by far the largest such growth of any single state – and comfortably more than the combined total of the next four states on the list. Wimbledon will…

SHOCKINGLY WRONG Y2K DIGITAL MARKETING PREDICTIONS Let’s dig into some interesting stats and predictions from the year 2000. The US Rental Property Investment Market 2020 The US housing market including the rental market was continuing at a good pace as employment and demographics fed the demand for rental properties. America’s new favorite pastime Without live sports and…

Focusing My Time “I have made the decision to step down from both of the public boards on which I serve – Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway – to dedicate more time to philanthropic priorities including global health and development, education, and my increasing engagement in tackling climate change.” — Bill Gates A Timeline of the…

The Wealth Report 2020 – Knight Frank You’ll read about a few interesting takes on what the wealthy are doing and how they are investing their money. Here is the report. Tech Hubs: Leading innovation hubs | cities outpacing the competition Singapore, London, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, and New York were ranked as the leading technology…

My Thoughts About the Coronavirus The most important assets that you need to take good care of are you and your family. As with investing, I hope that you will imagine the worst-case scenario and protect yourself against it. The Great Tulsa Remote Worker Experiment The first class of hand-picked remote workers moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma,…

History Repeats as Sales Tax Hike Pushes Japan Toward Recession The logic behind the tax increase is that the government needs more money to provide pensions and health care for the growing legions of elderly like Mitsui, while reining in the developed world’s largest government debt pile. A tax increase risks sapping the economy and…

This Week Gamers Invested $1 Million in Virtual Blockchain Real Estate This week alone, gamers, virtual reality enthusiasts, and the cryptocurrency community have invested nearly a million dollars worth of real world currencies into virtual real estate generated and maintained by blockchains. Scientists look to bees to develop drone technology British scientists are studying the…

The Rise and Fall of Danchi, Japan’s Largest Social Housing Experiment Japanese mass housing from the 1960s is a fascinating cross-cultural experiment that merged Western and Soviet modernist typologies with traditional Japanese elements. Once a symbol of a new “modernized” way of life, it has since become a burden for Japanese society. Current living conditions…

How biology creates networks that are cheap, robust, and efficient Physicists describe how vascular networks, collections of vessels that move fluid, nutrients, and waste, balance robustness with “cost” to create a diverse array of structures and designs. Beyond its implications in biology and evolution, this theory could also prove useful in designing engineered networks such…

The wheels of change: Human capital, millwrights, and industrialization in 18th-century England The consensus among economic historians has been that Britain’s leadership during the Industrial Revolution owed little to the school system. This shows how millwrights – highly skilled carpenters who specialised in constructing and repairing watermills – had a persistent effect on the mechanisation…