October 02, 2008

Boyce Thompson: Boyce on Building

Senate-Passed Legislation May Be Too Attractive for the House to Ignore

What a difference two days and $110 billion in election-year goodies makes. It looks as though the $810 billion bailout bill that passed the Senate yesterday may garner enough votes in the House—12 representatives who voted ‘no’ on Monday need to change their minds—to pass Congress and wind up on the president’s desk. Read more...

 
 
September 30, 2008

Boyce Thompson: Boyce on Building

How Builders Would Jump Start the Market

Economists and government officials seem to agree that the housing market will need to reverse course in order for the economy to strengthen. Yet the rescue package that Congress rejected yesterday would have done little to change the housing market’s downward dynamic. Read more...

 
 
September 25, 2008

Boyce Thompson: Boyce on Building

Builders’ Optimism Fails to Persuade Analyst

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September 23, 2008

Boyce Thompson: Boyce on Building

Financial Bailout: Will It Work?

Will the Treasury plan to buy up to $700 billion in bad mortgages off the books of financial institutions be enough to turn around the housing recession? That’s the question that everyone--from the halls of Congress, to the streets of Manhattan, to the tracts of home building--seems to be debating this week. Read more...

 
 
September 19, 2008

The Lean Builder

Whence Cometh the Lean Builder Blog?

I was six years old when I managed to convince my older brother and his delinquent friends to take me with them to the Princess Theatre for the 25¢ Saturday matinee. The movie was “The Blob,” destined to be a Steve McQueen classic. The only thing I recall besides feeling I was a really big boy hanging out with a bunch of 10-year-olds, was the scene where the Blob creature began to emerge from the wall in the back of the theater in a small town where the kids were at the … uh-oh … Saturday matinee! The Blob slithered up to the concession counter and said, “I’ll have a large popcorn, box of Sno-Caps® and that cute little 6-year-old over there.” It scared the wits out of me and I kept looking over my shoulder the rest of the movie. Fast forward 50 years. Read more...

 
 

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