Articles
Real Estate

The State of the Nation's Housing 2004 by Harvard University

Real Estate Pricing - It's All Relative NPI historical cap rates (1982-2003).

Is There a Bubble in Home Prices? by Robert J. Shiller (Professor of Economics at Yale University). At least one aspect of a housing bubble is visible: rapid price increases

The Role of Speculation in Real Estate Cycles by Stephen Malpezzi and Susan Wachter June26,2002

2002-2003 Real Estate Bubble in the UK but not in the USA by Wei-Xing Zhou and Didier Sornette (American mortgages are on the path of becoming the single largest class of fixed income securities on the planet.)

Korpacz Real Estate Investor Survey® Finds Plenty of Capital Across all Sectors But Stagnation in the Creation of new Jobs Is Undercutting New Demand for Office Space (Pricewaterhouse Coopers 3-24-2004)

Part I—Opportunistic Investing: What’s Next for Opportunistic Investing? Jeffrey D. Furber CEO & Managing Partner, AEW Capital Management, L.P.

A retrospective on business-cylce recoveries: are "jobless" recoveries the new norm? by Roger W. Ferguson, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Bovernonrs of the US Federal Reserve System 7-24-2004

Marketing

Value of On-premise Business Signs."In today's commercial environment, .., even the local shopkeeper or practitioner requires legible, conspicuous on-premise signage visible to the street. .. On any given day, the potential "unfamiliar" customer loss may be as high as 50% of the motoring customer pool." pp 11.

Economic

The future of the dollar... So the upshot of all this is that anything could happen in exchange markets. So toss a coin, as Greenspan suggests, and hope that the US does not fix things so that heads they win and tails we lose! Author Nitin Desai (chief economic advisor to the government of India, and former under secretary general, United Nations) (Source 2-16-2005 Redrff)

What Do The Numbers Really Mean? Uncovering the Secrets of Economic Indicators (Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania)