…origination mess. The plan, Reforming America’s Housing Finance Market: A Report to Congress (Treasury and Housing and Urban Development, Feb. 2011), claims that it will “reform America’s housing finance market…

…the base of the regime. However, over time with urbanization and slow growth and the rise of corruption since Mubarak took over, that base has eroded. Nasser also gained credibility…

…is urban farming, but that assumes people will not move into Detroit any time soon. So does the 50 square miles provide us with an opportunity? New neighborhoods? New types…

…look at this Tax Policy Center (Urban Institute/Brookings Institution) analysis of the impact of the expiration of the 2001-2003 Tax Cuts. Extending the cuts would result in an average effective…

…study, by researchers at the Social Security Administration and the Urban Institute, modeled the consequences over the next 22 years of eliminating many defined benefit pensions. The report projected what…

…than the CPI-W. This was expected, because the CPI-U includes the expenditures of all urban consumers, including those 62 years of age and over. The CPI-W, however, is limited to…

…Third every weekend); and new ideas like urban farming (if they can figure out what to do about the high lead level in the Detroit earth). Most important, though, is…

…make a real difference in unemployment? How about providing 1-2 billion apiece to the ten largest inner cities to be used for urban renewal–destruction of ruined buildings, building of public…

…new runs at Urban Transit, Community Develpment, or (non-military) Foreign Aid? I suspect they know better than to get too ambitious and will instead just strike at Entitlements as such….

…jobs will continue to fall far short of burgeoning supply (the “demographic dividend”), condemning many millions to insecure and ill-paid, informal urban employment (or even unemployment) and mounting underemployment and…