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"In Donald Trump's housing market, rich investors get richer by buying up more houses while working families are pushed out of homeownership"
July 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Reposted by Joe Penny
In Donald Trump's housing market, rich investors get richer by buying up more houses while working families are pushed out of homeownership.
Real estate investors are purchasing more U.S. homes as high prices lock out would-be buyers
The rise in investor home purchases reflects how much the housing market has slowed as traditional buyers are sidelined, according to BatchData.
www.cbsnews.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Read on friends...."In a new article for the RSA, Will Snell argues that we should bust the myth of meritocracy, and acknowledge the outsized role that luck plays in all of our lives- as well as the impacts of the structural barriers....."

Read the full article here: www.thersa.org/rsa-journal/...
www.thersa.org
July 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Reposted by Joe Penny
In a new article for the RSA, Will Snell argues that we should bust the myth of meritocracy, and acknowledge the outsized role that luck plays in all of our lives- as well as the impacts of the structural barriers holding people back.

Read the full article here: www.thersa.org/rsa-journal/...
July 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
@rbreich.bsky.social Hope you are keeping well.May I ask. We observe from the outside, the daily pursuit of the spectacle, the pantomime, the fascist mindset.Where are the great orators, lawyers,barristers attorneys who will make the challenge to the fascist playbook evident to us all?.
June 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
@rbreich.bsky.social ...Robert, not unlike many of your fellow citizens who are aghast at events in USA....I /we all await some response beyond the use of social media..please note this link in the fight against fascism.
bsky.app/profile/theg...
Keep up the good work..best
June 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
An old book for the times we live/exist/suffer in..."The Society of the Spectacle" by Guy Debord.....
June 12, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Carl Schmitt, "State of Exception", Agamben.....oh USA (govt)..... the playbook is so apparent. Ever mindful of the timely advice from Timothy Snyder, in his missal of a slight book.. downloads.prh.com/incentives/p...
June 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Greetings to all you Bluesky friends....for the times we live in...let's be positive...let's be human beings...let all flourish.
June 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM