Tue 12 May 2009
Laid out on a granite slab
Posted by Marlow Harris under Popular Culture, Real Estate
The Great Wish across America is to resume the life of comfort-and-convenience that seemed so nirvana-like just a few short years ago, when the very constellations of the heavens might have been renamed after heroic Atlanta realtors and Connecticut hedge fund warriors, and the boomer portfolios groaned with earnings, and millions of graying corporate salary mules dreamed of their approaching retirement to a satori of golf and Viagra, and the interior decorators grew so rich installing granite countertops that they could buy their own houses in the East Hampton, and every microcephalic parking valet in Las Vegas qualified for a bucket full of Ninja mortgages, and Lloyd Blankfein could dream of divorcing his wife to marry his cappuccino machine.
Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler has written for the Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone and the New York Times.
May 13th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Those were the days. I think that we will see another cycle of growth like that eventualy. If we have learned anything about our economy of late it is that it is a cyclical economy. Wait it out.
May 19th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Thank you for putting this all together. You did a wonderful job, and your points are well taken. I don’t think we are going to se a major uptick this year or early next. “Humpty Dumpty had a great fall!”