Interesting…..But So What?

I am not certain what to make of this given the actual paucity of data regarding real estate and the outright dishonesty of many land rats. Its a nice looking chart and it may have some broad value but I am not certain what it is. Housing is not like trading where price discovery is…

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So….Who Is In Charge?

… Until recently, most studies just broke out the top 1% as a group. Data on net worth distributions within the top 1% indicate that one enters the top 0.5% with about $1.8M, the top 0.25% with $3.1M, the top 0.10% with $5.5M and the top 0.01% with $24.4M. Wealth distribution is highly skewed towards…

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Are We Broke Yet?

With the Yanks taking a leaf  out of the Robert Mugabe school of economics and demonstrating an inability to master simple household economics I found this neat little graphic regarding each countries rating. Although given the quality of ratings agencies I am not certain I would place too much faith in it. From  Reuters

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