houses for sale: Homeownership Creates Family Wealth in Hawaii - 05/19/15 03:10 AM
Did you know that Homeownership Creates Family Wealth in Hawaii?
Matthew Rognlie, a young graduate student from the Department of Economics at MIT, recently released a 51 page Brookings Paper: "Deciphering the Fall and Rise in the Net Capital Share." 
 
One of the major findings of the report is that homeownership is and has been for the last fifty years a major component to family wealth.
Then, an article on the study in The Economist notes one of the findings of the study:
“The return on non-housing wealth, in fact, has been remarkably stable since 1970. Instead, surging house prices are almost entirely responsible for growing returns on capital.”
This … (4 comments)

houses for sale: Don't say "I CAN'T" Honolulu Big Island Hawaii Waikiki 2012 Blog Challenge - 01/23/12 01:22 PM
As a part of my 2012 BIG Jumpstart Blog Challenge, I thought about my cousin Leroy and
his wife Cindy.  This is to fulfil the PHOTO portion.  My cousin truly had his challenges, so I have learned NOT to say I CAN'T or I WON'T.
  To make the story short, 30 years ago, he was asleep as a back seat passenger when the driver went off the road and Leroy was thrown through the windshield FIFTY feet.  The accident left him a paraplegic.  He was alive but his work life was ended, his dreams were smashed.  I'm sure he … (4 comments)

 
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