Shiller on Colombian Real Estate
“Nevertheless, I was not expecting a bubble story when I visited Colombia last month. But, once again, people there told me about an ongoing real-estate bubble, and my driver showed me around the seaside resort town of Cartagena, pointing out, with a tone of amazement, several homes that had recently sold for millions of dollars.”
“For example, the current story in Colombia appears to be that the country’s
government, now under the well-regarded management of President Juan Manuel Santos, has brought down inflation and interest rates to developed-country levels, while all but eliminating the threat posed by the FARC rebels, thereby injecting new vitality into the Colombian economy. That is a good enough story to drive a housing bubble.”
(Project Syndicate, July, 2013)
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• Caracas 134 homicides per 100,000 • Cali 82 homicides per 100,000 • Detroit 47 homicides per 100,000 • Medellin 38 homicides per 100,000 (down from 70/100,000
in 2002) • Bogota is 17 per 100,000. • Rio de Janeiro 50-23 per 100,000 between 2001 and 2011 • Sao Paolo 42-13.5 per 100,000 between 2001 and 2011 • On one level, the declines in homicide in Colombia and
Brazil are impressive. The world needs to change its views of Colombia and Medellin.
• On another level, there is still work to do.
Ray Kelly vs. Ed Davis: Community policing and corruption
Ed Davis by Michael Cummo RayKelly by David Shankbone
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• Medellin takes more time (119 days) but less money.
• Brazil has 15 procedures taking 400 days.
• Peru has 14 procedures 173 days.
• Latin American average is 13 procedures 216 days.
• Singapore is 11 procedures and 26 days.
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