A Phil Hall Op-Ed: Earlier this month, Bank of England Chief Economist Huw Pill stated the reason that rents were so high in his country was not because of elevated interest rates, but because of “quite large increases in immigration” – net migration broke a record in...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: Warren Buffett hosted his annual Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A) shareholders meeting this past weekend, and during the event the billionaire executive was quizzed about artificial intelligence (AI). “I don’t know anything about AI,” he said,...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: There is a quip, incorrectly attributed to Albert Einstein, that says, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” A prime example of that foolishness in motion can be seen at the U.S. Postal Service...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: You never know what you can find on social media. Today, while taking a break from my duties, I scrolled through a site and found the following post that gave me great amusement. “We have the highest mortgage rates in a generation and stubbornly...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: Today, while most of the country was looking skyward through special glasses to see a once-in-a-lifetime total eclipse, President Biden was looking at his tanking poll numbers and hastily served up another scheme to erase student loan debt. Biden’s...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: As the proverbial dust is settling on the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) $418 million settlement, a growing number of voices are starting to complain loudly that the changes being enacted on the home selling structure will not bode well for...