I know a lot of you participate on those other sites because I randomly troll those sites as well.

Hi, the problem, if there is one, is that investors need to optimize their return, but the yard stick to measure the opportuniyties that you may have are rather fuzzy for all but very large institutional investors.

Go through county property records and the name of the bank or financial institution will come up as the principal owner.

The problem is that China's economy is on a trajectory that is going to make it much larger than ours (unless we allow massive immigration) and we will simply not be able to match it beyond the next two or three decades.I think a good strategy for us right now would be to make multilateral institutions much stronger and also form stronger alliances with countries around China.

I'll not participate in the debate except to say that so far, I am pretty happy with my educational investment.

As an institutional lender, like a bank, they can actually make money because the employees working on the deal charge the account so to speak and the bill runs up.

(I try not to buy institutional financed, but when I do, it is non recourse also.

Well this went over like a lead balloon ;-)Any takers now that we have more board participants?

The HOA has never been formally organized for owner input and participation and there's likely too many unsold lots to purchase in a fashion current lot owners could afford.

To me, bias would refer to an inability to evaluate facts impartially and I think The Economist does a pretty good job of writing balanced articles.But I do agree that it has an institutional viewpoint - it favors small government.