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Home Owners Associations and Condo Boards – are they preventing small business recovery?

spencer — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:50:43 +0000

I think I may have a reason why this recovery is floundering, and it all has to do with housing. Now stay with me a second, this is not subprime loans, nor predatory markets, or anything else that has already been blamed, this is a simple shift in how America lives and how that has [...]

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Home Owners Associations and Condo Boards – are they preventing small business recovery?

A catch 22

spencer — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:37:01 +0000

So I’ve been on the job market since February; in that time, I’ve applied for over 175 different positions. Some of these have been outside of the world of architecture, while most have been with architecture practices. I can see the writing on the wall, the architecture industry is changing and until it finds its [...]

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A catch 22

Where have I been this past two months?

spencer — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:59:00 +0000

I just realized the other day that it has almost been 2 months since I last updated this blog. Who would have thought that I would be able to keep a normal writing schedule while I was working 50 hour weeks, but once I became unemployed I would struggle to write something ever few weeks, [...]

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Where have I been this past two months?

On the (internet) Radio, oh oh!

spencer — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:35:38 +0000

I have been twittering about my lay off experience and one of the people I’ve been talking to is Laura Conaway from the Planet Money Podcast by NPR. Today I had a phone interview with her and we discussed my situation. You can hear me at the end of today’s podcast (here is a link [...]

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On the (internet) Radio, oh oh!