I’ll often ask “what are the problems with doing X?”.
It doesn’t imply that there should be a solution but you still want to learn why it might not work. Often you can continue the conversation enough to either exclude it or think some more about the problems that are described.
Anyone who is capable of getting a second mortgage will consider holding it and renting it out if they can. The yield is very likely to be higher than the payments these days.
Sure, but they could have sold off a lot of their long term assets earlier instead. To me, the problem was not an outright lack of hedges, rather it was continuing to take too much risk all of the way down. Hedges only make sense to me if they were a cheaper way to achieve the same thing as selling the assets.
Tarmak is what finally allowed me to switch away from QWERTY. Prior to tarmak I couldn’t deal with the massive productivity loss that I would initially encounter with Dvorak and I would eventually switch back.
The fact that initially steps are the highest impact really helps too.
These cultural differences may even depend on where you are in the US. Nearly every apartment building around me in Seattle has a name. Much of this is for marketing I’m sure, but this includes many of the buildings built in the 60s and 70s.
I agree. Amazon also absolutely wants to encourage behaviour where you don’t even think before buying, so scammy listings like this are hurt their strategy. The fact that they later delisted the seller shows that they recognised the abuse.
Well, taxing something means you’ll usually get less of it, so I guess it’ll reduce demand on housing (probably not what they want since it hurts the economy in other ways). If the money goes to building for those in need it could help a bit.
The only thing that will really help over the long term is building even more apartments.