It’s great to finally be home. After more than a month on the road, it’s time to get back and do some laundry. Travel is great. It lets you see so many things. You can take your mind off the details and get some deep thinking done. The downside is that you can get horribly behind on world events. While you can get the ... Read More

The Great Ocean Road I’m on the way to Adelaide and have stopped at a coffee shop in Tailem Bend, South Australia. If you can find this place on a map, you have a better map than me. I have just driven the Great Ocean Road between Melbourne and Adelaide. I’ve driven on a lot of scenic roads before; this is clearly one of ... Read More

I live on Miami Beach. It is the epicenter of the condo boom and then crash. For four years now, every hint of a bottom has been greeted with applause. Everyone wants to call the bottom—or at least hope that prices cannot go lower. Everywhere you look, people want to declare victory. I thought condo prices were silly as they went up. I think ... Read More

Dear Comrade Obama, Last week, I learned about yet another (soon to be failed) plan to fix the housing market. Like all plans before it, this one will only serve to waste government funds and instill false hope. I thought I would write to you with my own plan. Let’s call it the Kuppy Plan. I must say that I am proud of the ... Read More