By The Tim on November 23, 2009
Someone linked this up in the weekend open thread, and I thought it was a pretty good summary of why I am not convinced that we are presently on the road to recovery, so I thought I’d share it here. Are We Living In Zero Hour Now?
If I tried to excerpt some of the [...]
Posted in Economy | Tagged debt, economics, Economy, politics
By The Tim on January 5, 2009
Some of you may recall back in February last year, when the Seattle Times ran a story about UW professor Theo Eicher’s land use regulations study, with the headline declaring “Rules add $200,000 to Seattle house price.”
Here at Seattle Bubble we had serious questions about the dramatic conclusion in that study, and the methods that [...]
Posted in News | Tagged demand, economics, fundamentals, growth_management, regulation
By The Tim on February 14, 2008
The big local housing story today is a study that was released recently by University of Washington Economics professor Theo Eicher. The thrilling title of the study is “Municipal and Statewide Land Use Regulations and Housing Prices Across 250 Major US Cities,” and it may be found (along with a number of related materials) [...]
Posted in News, Statistics | Tagged demand, economics, fundamentals, growth_management, regulation
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