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Anyone who can get the title "senior" from multiple major tech employers can get that salary if they are competent at negotiating. That is where the market is in 2017. At top emplo…

Thousands of Google engineers make $300k a year.

This would be a correct comparison if you spent 100% of your income on housing. On the other hand, if you are spending 15% on rent, or 30% on a mortgage, you amass a lot of wealth.…

Where can I apply for an exemption to the not owning a house penalty?

Trump has historically bad approval ratings for a new president. Expect to see stories like this for the next 4 years.

I am skeptical that this program will be a good signal for hiring analysts. In my experience, there are two things you need to select for: (1) Understanding statistics. Hopefully t…

There is a limit, true, but that limit is 60 story high-rises. I doubt foreign demand would hold up very long if we built a few of those, but in any case, the union construction jo…

Usually, when people from another country buy something in our country, we call it an "export" and cheer it on. In this case, because housing construction is limited, we consider i…

Hey, it worked for interest rates.