Making An Older Home More Livable, & Valuable
Clean, open floor plans continually rank atop homebuyers' wish lists. Nothing quite runs contrary to this pursuit than the warren of rabbit holes of a 1970s-era home.
Think segmented rooms and wall-to-wall shag carpet. Jagged stone...
The Tax Implications for Small Businesses Inside the Omnibus
The year of 2023 is shaping up to be a rough one for small and midsize businesses. Borrowing costs are at 13-year highs, demand is slowing along with the economy and now they'll pay more in taxes.
Higher taxes come compliments of re...
Stranger Things: Why We're Seeing Lots of Throwback Cars On the Road
On a recent weekend in Madison, Wisconsin, cars on the street had the look of a bygone era. I saw surviving Saturns, Oldsmobile minivans, even that funky old greenhouse on wheels, the AMC Pacer.
Turns out, cars in the rest of t...
A Surprise Winner of the U.S./China Trade War? Mexico
Talk about unintended consequences: The trade war that was supposed to punish China for unfair business practices is fueling an economic boom south of the US border in Mexico.
When tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum were announced...
Barriers to Mobile-Home Parks Cruelly Limit Affordable Housing Supply
As we watch rent and home prices soar around the country, it's easy to forget that the U.S. housing market includes far more options than just luxury condo towers and single-family homes.
In fact, multi-family dwellings and mobile h...
I Believe In Free Markets. Big Tech Is Censoring Them
For the past eight months, my company has been on the receiving end of a different kind of censorship from America's Big Tech companies. But not for any of the headline-generating reasons Donald Trump or Parler have been shut down. We've been...