New
Year’s 2016: How’d We Get Here?

Amusing Excerpts:

Now that we’re coming to the end of the first year of President Obama’s
administration, for the first time in a number of years, there is a fair
amount of hopefulness regarding the economy…

Think back to 2007. Do you remember the neighborhood upon neighborhood
of unsold newly built homes on the far reaches of many of America’s growth
cities? Remember the jokes that one of the purposes the Pacific Ocean
serves is as a boundary so that Atlanta and Washington would have to stop
growing west?