The wave of foreign capital flowing into U.S. real estate is poised for a record-setting year.
$24.1 billion estimated, 24% of the market.
Previous high in 2007 was $23.6 billion.
Chinese investors led the way with $1.9 billion in acquisitions during the second quarter, followed by investors from South Korea at $700 million, the United Arab Emirates at $600 million and Canada at $500 million.
(http://nreionline.com/finance-investment/foreign-investment-us-real-estate-assets-hit-record-high)
– ¾ of Americans don’t know where the U.S. gets its oil from
– The U.S. only imports 40% of the oil it uses; the other 60% is produced in the U.S.
– Half of the oil the U.S. imports is from North and South America; only 28% of imported oil comes from the Middle East
(http://www.randalolson.com/2014/08/28/where-the-u-s-gets-its-oil-from)
In the year since Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, police have killed at least 1,083 Americans. So far, 22 of those officers have been indicted or charged.
Mathematician Beth Clarkson has found irregularities in election returns from Sedgwick County, along with other counties throughout the United States, but has faced stiff opposition from the state in trying to confirm whether the irregularities are fraud or other, less-nefarious anomalies.
Analyzing election returns at a precinct level, Clarkson found that candidate support was correlated, to a statistically significant degree, with the size of the precinct. In Republican primaries, the bias has been toward the establishment candidates over tea partiers. In general elections, it has favored Republican candidates over Democrats, even when the demographics of the precincts in question suggested that the opposite should have been true.
Clarkson’s interest in election returns was piqued by a 2012 paper released by analysts Francois Choquette and James Johnson showing the same pattern of election returns, which favor establishment Republican candidates in primaries and general elections. The irregularities are isolated to precincts that use “Central Tabulator” voting machines — machines that have previously been shown to be vulnerable to hacking.
(http://americablog.com/2015/08/mathematician-actual-voter-fraud-kansas-republicans.html)
“There are no secrets, only lazy researchers.”
(http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/03/gchq_duncan_campbell)
The market for apartment properties is likely to keep expanding. That’s despite the fact that the business of investing in apartments has already been in expansion for six years, since property prices hit their low point in 2009. No boom lasts forever, but the long, slow recovery from the financial crisis continues to bring new capital to multifamily real estate, which still provides relative high yields compared to other investments.
(http://nreionline.com/multifamily/new-capital-continues-come-multifamily)
Yesterday afternoon the State Police Holden Barracks received a report from a Worcester County Deputy Sheriff of a vehicle traveling erratically and at high speeds on Interstate 495 in Marlborough and the vehicle had just exited and is now westbound on Interstate 290.
Trooper Luis Rodriguez was stationary on I-290 near exit 22 in Shrewsbury when he observed the described vehicle pass his location at a speed higher than the posted limit of 65. Trooper Rodriguez attempted to stop the vehicle, which it did not. The vehicle, a Dodge Caliber accelerated to over 100 mph, changing lanes to pass vehicles, including driving in the breakdown lane.
As the vehicle approached a congested construction zone, on I-290 near College Square in Worcester, the pursuit was terminated. The driver, later identified as a 25-year-old man of Manchester New Hampshire, continued to maneuver through traffic. Other troopers then observed the vehicle on Route 20 westbound in Auburn.
As the driver approached troopers stopped on Route 20, he exited the westbound lanes and began driving westbound in the eastbound lanes of Route 20 in the town of Oxford, approaching the Charlton town line. An attempt was made with a tire deflation device to disable the vehicle. He then continued westbound until troopers were able to position their cruisers until he could no longer continue traveling.
The driver was placed under arrest and charged with multiple offenses, including OUI-Drugs and Failure to Stop.
(https://www.facebook.com/MassStatePolice/posts/859261214157863:0)
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