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Some private observations regarding the commercial real estate crisis

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Yesterday I had a very interesting conversation with a friend of mine who is – ironically – a real estate lawyer in America. We had a video call on Skype and he was doing some contract work sitting on the porch of his beach home. He is planning to abandon his office downtown soon – why would he want to pay the fixed cost of something he has no use for?

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I do have a similar story. I always thought about moving my stock operations into a nice shiny loft downtown. It would feel good. And it would be of no use at all. I guess I’ll stay in my study and have my people working for me from wherever they choose to. I also do have no dedicated office as a lawyer – which I also happen to be.

The next big crisis in the US is the commercial real estate bubble. Why am I not surprised? (more…)

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If I look hard enough into the setting sun

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

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My love will laugh with me before the morning comes. Or so Jagger thinks.

Having my autumn-retro-phase listening to classic rock I still cannot believe how unbelievably kuhl the Stones were in there heydays – and I also cannot believe how reluctant they were to learning to play their instruments properly. On the other hand: if you manage to do a song like “sympathy for the devil” that is simply not from this world, who then cares whether you keep the beat. That’s so for sissies.

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