Writing a book is cool. You learn the publishing process. You challenge yourself to empty your brain of everything relevant on a subject, and infuse it with as much original research as you can. When you are done, you are left with the same feeling a painter has when he first turns the canvass around [...]

Residential real estate is not rocket science. We know that this housing crisis is: 1. Explainable – bad lending, mad speculation, wild expectations, government meddling; 2. Isolated – bad mortgages, negative equity, strategic default, government meddling; 3. Temporary – demand for housing always catches up to supply eventually. Anyone with any experience and perspective will agree [...]