via pjmedia: Discount retail giant Walmart is only the half the giant it once was in Chicago, saying this week that it will shutter four of its eight locations there. The Washington Post says the move signals “urban struggles.” Outgoing mayor Lori Lightfoot, …
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by Chris Black Some shifts I see coming over the horizon. –Being muscular will be associated with socially inept nerds. –Having visible tattoos will be associated with rural Christian conservatives. –Middle aged family men will stop drinking beer and start …
by Glenn Reynolds “WHERE’D ALL THE MONEY GO?” Jackson MS problems are deeper than the water. In all the frustrating and heartbreaking reports surrounding the desperate difficulties of the Jackson, Mississippi water situation, I heard a snippet that buzzed around in my …
by Chris Black This is watching the destruction of a city in real time. Both of the locations mentioned in the article, the South Side and the Waterfront are popular recreational and retail areas filled with stores, bars, and restaurants. …
Campus Reform conducted an analysis of Google Trends results, which show that shows web searches for Black Lives Matter (BLM) have decreased since the summer of 2020. Support for BLM has also decreased nearly 20% during that same time period, …
by Michael Snyder If you look like you have money, you are a potential target. I know that statement may sound crass, but we all need to understand that the environment in this country has fundamentally changed. Criminals in our …
by laflammaster Related: Substantial slowdown of China’s giant housing market is occurring.
via NYPOST: If there were any doubt, rising violent crime is a real issue with the potential to do major political harm to Democrats. That’s the subtext of President Biden’s decision to interrupt his push for his trillion-dollar spending plans …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ic0q0sIqvc The mayor of Lyon, whose region has been plagued by urban violence, with cars torched and police attacked, sees snitching on your own family as the best way to combat crime.
Shanty-town redevelopment is important as this is a key part of domestic demand which is directly controlled by the government….. The PBOC prints money, lends it to the China Development Bank, the world’s biggest policy bank, via the Pledged Supplementary …
by Charles Hugh-Smith Combine sky-high commercial rents in homogenized, gentrified urban areas and sharp declines in the incomes of the limited populace who can afford gentrified urban areas and what do you get? A number of macro dynamics have set …
via city-journal.org: For writers, it pays to be a contrarian. That is, it’s hard to make a living pitching books and articles that say: “The conventional wisdom about Subject X holds up pretty well.” A more promising approach is to contend …
After one particularly violent weekend earlier this month when more than 70 people were shot, Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel deflected questions about police staffing and strategy. Instead, he ignited a firestorm when he said there needs to be a politically …
Mar 15 – FS Insider interviews Urban Carmel, lead writer at The Fat Pitch, to discuss his latest macro update looking at the US jobs market, housing, the outlook for inflation, and much more. Urban says that they used the …
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