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The Department of Transportation’s headquarters campus in Washington spans two complexes covering 1.8 million square feet across 11-acre of prime DC real estate. In the private…
By James Hickman
Read moreBy the time John Adams returned home from Europe in August of 1779, he had been away from his family for sixteen long months representing US interests overseas. The Revolutionary…
By James Hickman
Read moreIn the summer of 1972, a Soviet official named Nikolai Belousov stepped off a plane in New York City with a shopping list. The Soviet Union had just finished its worst harvest in…
By James Hickman
Read moreOn November 27th in the year 176 AD, Marcus Aurelius promoted his 15-year old biological son Commodus to be Co-emperor of Rome. Marcus Aurelius never realized it, but he was…
By James Hickman
Read moreIf you have a budget of $179,000 to spend on real estate in the United States, I hope you like renovated sheds. Or a six-hour drive to the nearest airport. But right now, $179,000…
By James Hickman
Read moreIn Ann Arbor, Michigan, there’s a psychiatry practice called Mind Work that doesn’t take Medicare. It doesn’t take Medicaid or Blue Cross or any other insurance either. Patients…
By James Hickman
Read moreOn Tuesday, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the nation’s first statewide ban on new AI data centers. Data center development, she explained, “threatens to hike up utility…
By James Hickman
Read moreOn July 7, Bloomberg published an article with the headline: “Gold’s Bull Market Has Ended and Now All Eyes Are on Bears,” explaining how many retail investors have headed for the…
By James Hickman
Read moreWashington has a comforting story about Social Security: yes, the trust fund is running out of money, but not until 2032. That leaves six more years to form the commissions,…
By James Hickman
Read moreThe lights went on at approximately 3pm on September 4, 1882 in New York City. Thomas Edison (with major funding from JP Morgan) had spent roughly two years building the…
By James Hickman
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