Things are looking pretty sweet out there right now, aren’t they? The economy seems immune to all the handwringing over jobs and inflation. The stock market is on fire. The financial community, including but certainly not limited to the commercial real estate finance community, is doing cartwheels over the expectation that 2026 will be the year we’ve been
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If You’re Planning to Attend the Party, You Best Be Sure Interest Rates Are Coming Down
By Rick Jones
There’s an awful lot of happy talk going around about 2026. Apparently, that’s the year we were supposed to stay alive till. I surely hope the talk is right, even if it doesn’t rhyme. 2025 was a pretty darn good year for commercial real estate but underperformed the “talk” in late 2024. We like happy talk. I keep seeing stories across…
AI: Miracle and Menace for the Law Firm Business Model
By Rick Jones
I think about AI off and on in a desultory sort of way. I wonder about its threats and promises; a sci-fi dystopia of the Industrial Revolution 2.0. One thing I share with our most recent wannabe president, Ms. Harris, I, too, know that AI stands for Artificial Intelligence.
I also suspect like almost everyone, that pretty…
How to Play An (Apparently) Manichean Election
By Rick Jones
If it really didn’t matter, all this electioneering drama would be good fun, wouldn’t it? Throw in some sex and a car chase and this would work on Netflix! Regrettably, in the real world, it is less than entirely amiable.
It is probably true that most of us are anxious as the election carries so many notes…
The Golden Turkeys: 2.0
By Rick Jones
Hello, folks. I’m back. From now on, you can follow my musings on that which annoys, amuses and confounds me here in CrunchedEverything. I look forward to continuing to engage with my readership. Please don’t be shy about telling me that I am ill-informed analytically weak, or just plain silly.
In any event, I’m starting…
Why Are We So Calm?
By Rick Jones
This is just a short note, with little actual utility, but it’s about something that’s really bothering me.
Why are we so calm? What has anesthetized us? …