Prices Rise

"Commercial property prices in the US in February saw their sharpest decline since records began nearly 15 years ago as sources of finance for deals has dried up, according to data from Standard & Poor's out yesterday. Sales of commercial properties were down 71 per cent in the first quarter compared with a year earlier." (Financial Times)

To Readers

Away most of the month, and start of the next. Take care of your biz as I take care of mine.

Sound of Silence

The greatest enemy we have to face today is our own silence about so many things that we have ignored, until they have become totally unmanageable.

What people must do now is take off the headphones, remove our blindfolds, and remove our self-imposed gags. Then we need to demand basic changes to everything that passes for the norm.

Otherwise there will be a lot more dark-days than just a single Black Tuesday!

The United States Constitution stipulates that no payments can be made that are not provided for in an appropriations bill approved by Congress. Specifically, Article 1, Clause 7 states: "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time."

International Forecaster Weekly

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