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Choose One: Housing Is Either Shelter or Just Another Bubble Asset
I narrate key points in my post “Choose One: Housing Is Shelter, or Housing Is Just Another Asset in a Bubble Economy.”
Whenever I suggest that housing is being hoarded by the wealthy and corporations as a low-risk place to park credit-gen...
Choose One: Housing Is Shelter, or Housing Is Just Another Asset in a Bubble Economy
This will get massive pushback because it’s true: either Housing Is Shelter, or Housing Is Just Another Asset in a Bubble Economy--it can’t be both. This reality gets pushback because the conversion of housing from shelter into just anothe...
AI Data Centers Are Not Like Railroads
There are parallels of the railroad mania of the 1870s and the current AI mania. But that’s only half the story.
The differences between railroads and LLM / generative AI are significant.
AI is not permanent. It is constantly being obsole...
AI Data Centers Are Not the Railroads of Today
The idea that the current bubble in AI data centers is an echo of the railroad-construction bubble of the 1870s is appealing--but only half-right. The completion of the first transcontinental railroad in late 1869 sparked a speculative mani...
What Is Success? What Is Failure? Why It Matters
If we say success is completing the project we set out to complete, then success is within reach of everyone.
Both success and failure seem self-evident, but I’m no longer sure what qualifies as failure or success.
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Blogger since 2005, author of 18 books on the economy, society, AI, education, jobs, money, burnout and self-reliance (and 9 novels). Independent journalist / analyst, degree in philosophy and lifelong carpenter / permaculturist.
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