(Credit: iStock) The U.S. office market could turn to slosh next year, as developers plan to add 68 million square feet of space — the highest increase since 2008. The massive development could lead to downward pressure on the country’s office rent growth, the Wall Street Journal reported. Citing a Cushman & Wakefield report, the […]
Blog: After the Plague of Discourse
DECEMBER 19, 2018 DION KAGAN IS an academic, editor, and author of Australia’s longest-running queer column, which appears quarterly in literary magazine The Lifted Brow, as well as the host of the much-missed culture podcast The Rereaders. His first book is Positive Images: Gay Men and HIV/AIDS in the Culture of “Post-Crisis” (I.B. Tauris), a […]
Blog: Fed raises key interest rate but signals slower pace of increases ahead
By most accounts, the U.S. economy remains solid, but financial conditions have tightened and there are signs of a weakening housing sector. And some investors and observers, including President Trump, have blamed the stock market woes on the Fed having raised interest rates a little too much, too quickly. Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times
Blog: 8 Trends That Are in for 2019…and 6 That Are Out
IN: Craftwork As the temperature heats up, expect to see more artisanal craft details, experts say. “But on very minimalist silhouettes like at Loewe, JW Anderson, Victoria Beckham, and Jacquemus,” says Tiffany Hsu, Mytheresa Fashion Buying Director. Barneys New York Fashion Director, Marina Larroude agrees: “Nothing screams summer more than crochet and macramé. From Missoni […]
Blog: Watch live: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell discusses interest rate hike
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla. (Dylan Stewart / HS Insider) The morning after the Nov. 6 congressional midterm election in California, state, county and media websites reported that 100% of precincts had turned in their results. It was highly misleading: The final tally, released Friday, showed that a staggering 5.2 million of the 12.1 […]
Blog: What Penny Marshall did for girls
Penny Marshall, director of the movie “A League of Their Own” and many others, died Monday night. I met her in 1989 when she contacted me after she watched a documentary I made about my mother and my aunt who were both professional baseball players in the 1940s. They were part of the All American… […]