Housing Starts Surge 10.5%

Housing starts surged 10.5% in August, to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 598,000. The jump was a surprise to economists, and a contrast to Julys data, which was revised downward slightly to an increase of just 0.4%.

The Next Shoe to Drop on Wall Street

April 23, 2010 — Paul Nolte, managing director at Dearborn Partners, argues the financial machinations have casted a pall over what had been a decent start to earnings season.

Do immigrants to UK get priority for housing?

A look at how the people born here and pay taxes are always at the back of the housing queue, and everyone else seems to jump it. The clip includes a woman from some African country with her children, and she can't find anywhere suitable.... maybe she should not have had so many children and expecting the UK taxpayer to pick up the tab.

No wonder there's a housing shortage if those coming to the UK are jumping the queue because "They are homeless." What about British homeless?

Recorded from BBC London News, 17 March 2010.