New Orleans Crawling deeper and deeper down the dark hole of cash and corporate home-buying practices recently, one of the big players, previously unknown to me, was Opendoor. When I looked, it seemed like less a source where a prospective buyer would be fronted the cash to make an offer on a house to increase their chances …
Category: Economics
All-Cash Companies – Too Good to be True?
New Orleans There’s a stretch near Canal Street in New Orleans where I can’t get the signal as clearly from WAMF, our low power station, which focuses primarily on the downriver and eastern part of the city. I usually switch to the local NPR outlet for the end of my drive to the gym. Yesterday, …
Is Inflation Different Now?
Pearl River There’s a lot of drum-thumping about inflation now. How bad will it be? Who will it hurt? How long will it last? It’s easy to scare up some fuss, since it’s been a minute since we’ve dealt with much inflation, especially over the last decade. The doom and gloom folks are seeing this as the end of President Biden’s …