Hey, I like food as much as the next guy. Or gal. Maybe more than some. Especially Original Chips Ahoy, but that is a tale for a...

“Rob, what are the odds that the MBA will set up a ‘Man Park’ at the big conference in Las Vegas in October?” Slim to none. The United...

How about those junk emails that start off with, “I’m not going to waste your time.” It already wasted my time. Is it a waste of time...

Overheard in the hallways at last week’s MBA conference: “At my age, instead of a condom I carry a moist towelette in my wallet. At my...

Are your underwriters this fast ? The current Administration has been fast to ax groups of employees in various government departments,...

Helping the U.S. economy is a fine goal, but everyone wonders if paying someone in the United States $30 an hour to produce a widget is...

“I can’t afford an Ancestry DNA kit to learn about my relatives. So instead, I posted online that I had won the Powerball Lottery.”...

Yesterday I headed west from the conference while my son Robbie headed south to the nCino nSight event. But while in Manhattan Dawn S....

As nearly a thousand capital markets staff, managers, and vendors head home from Manhattan, united in trying to help borrowers, in a...

A mullah, a rabbi, and a priest walk into a bar here in New York. The bartender says, “What is this, some kind of joke?” What isn’t a...

People who don’t attend the National Secondary here in Manhattan wonder what happens behind the scenes. Here you go. We had the MCT...

My son Robbie told me that yesterday, on 5th Avenue in Manhattan, he was in line a few places behind the Dalai Lama at a hot dog cart....

This weekend is when many of us head to Manhattan for the MBA’s National Secondary event. For those flying in, check your ticket: NJ...

“There’s a splendid saying about the definition of an economist being someone who “will know tomorrow why the things they predicted...

As Roy Cohn once instructed a young Donald Trump, much can be accomplished by attacking first and dealing with the consequences later. I...

No one in places like Florida or Myrtle Beach or Colorado’s Glenwood Springs wants to wake up to a headline, sensationalist or not,...

Nearly a thousand of us head to Manhattan in less than a week for the MBA’s Secondary Conference. In 2025 Q1, the median asking rent in...

As noted earlier this week in the Commentary, builders report that the number of unsold homes is the highest since 2009, and in Sunbelt...

Here’s something that our Fed can’t do anything about, inflation-wise: coconut prices have doubled due to extreme weather events. (More...

“Why did the homeowner take so long in remodeling his home? He had trouble with da siding.” There are LOs, or correspondent investors,...