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Preparing for Slams

French Open at Roland Garros on June 4, 2023

I had the great privilege to attend the French Open at Roland Garros on June 4th. We saw two women’s matches and one men’s match involving Novak Djokovic. This was the first time I saw Djokovic play in person, so I was really happy we had tickets on the day he was playing on center court. 

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Having a Ball in Paris

I have been contending with a sciatica challenge for at least five years now. I have a nerve that is 50% damaged, and it seems to be regressing. I have seen a chiropractor and had an epidural, but so far, to no avail.

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R.I.P. Sam Zell

Sam Zell

Legendary real estate investor Sam Zell passed away last week at 81. He was clearly a larger-than-life figure who communicated in a very unfiltered way such that you always knew what he thought and where he stood. 

In the last year or two,

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10 Years Later: Getting in the Game and Staying in the Game

10th Blogging Anniversary May 2, 2013

This week is the 10th anniversary of my website going live, and during this decade, I have fortunately been able to write a blog each week without interruption. It has helped me become more observant and focused while on vacations knowing I will write about some of them while away.

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Where Do We Go from Here? Life's Inflection Points

Gary - Where Do We Go from Here_ Life's Inflection Points

Where do we go from here

Now that all of the children are growin’ up?

And how do we spend our lives

If there’s no one to lend us a hand?

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Valuable Lessons and Surprises in Surprise

Gary Carmell National Tennis Tournament April 2, 2023 B

Last week I wrote about my preparation for playing in a tennis tournament in Surprise, AZ. This week I’m going to report on the results, my experience, and lessons learned. As Mike Tyson famously said, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” 

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Banking on Cuts

Banking on Cuts

In the short run, the Fed chose to keep up the inflation fight despite deteriorating financial stability emanating from a wounded banking sector. There is now a lot of market data corroborating that the Fed will have no choice but to start cutting rates soon.

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Who's Afraid of Treasuries? When Stability Breeds Instability

Who's Afraid of Treasuries_ When Stability Breeds Instability

I’m going to breeze through a number of tweets and charts as I’m headed to watch the semi-finals and finals of the tennis matches at Indian Wells. The weather is going to be outstanding, and the matches have a similar promise.

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Hiding in Plain Sight

Silicon Valley Bank Hiding in Plain Sight

Like many others, I have been looking for where cracks in the financial system might appear catalyzed by the aggressive Federal Reserve rate hiking policy and balance sheet contraction. And while the housing market has been an obvious sacrificial lamb via much higher mortgage rates,

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The Fix(ed)

Interest rate

I recently returned from the National Multifamily Housing Council conference in Las Vegas. I have been attending the conference since very early in my career, which makes me one of the pioneer attendees as the organization was fairly new then, and there were probably no more than 500 people at the conference in the early 1990s.

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