We often hear daily quotes, especially in the news media about what has happened to a particular commodity price. The price of oil is up 2%. The stock market is down 1.5%. But all of this is in reference to what? Are we talking in the past day, in the past hour, in the past month ...Show more
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The Emotion Of Daily Quotes
We often hear daily quotes, especially in the news media about what has happened to a particular commodity price. The price of oil is up 2%. The stock market is down 1.5%. But all of this is in reference to what? Are we talking in the past day, in the past hour, in the past month ...Show more
Handling Policy Changes From The Lender
On today’s show we are talking about the importance of conservative underwriting. Lenders are not business people. They are not real estate developers. They don’t know how to manage risk in a complete sense. Then the lender changed the rules. The impact to our projects was negl ...Show more
The Local AutoMobile Factory
I’ve heard that a particular community needs more housing because there’s a new factory coming to town. There’s a new EV plant, a new battery plant, production is shifting for a new model car or truck at an existing plant. On today’s show we are looking at the early days and the ...Show more
Revising Your Way To Economic Truth
On today’s show we are looking at the latest economic data. The labor department issued new data last week which showed that the private sector payroll job creation was overstated from the period of June 2023 to June 2024 by more than 1.25M jobs. It basically cuts the private sec ...Show more
Commercial Construction with Matthew Bragg
Matthew Bragg is based in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. He is running a third generation commercial "Design/Build" construction company with projects across upstate New York. On today's show we are talking about the challenges of building in smaller markets. To con ...Show more