Companies Spruce Up Neighborhoods, Putting Gentrification in Overdrive

Companies Spruce Up Neighborhoods, Putting Gentrification in Overdrive
In 2006, absentee buyers and buyers making cash purchases—another sign they are investors—made up 10.6% and 5.7% of the market respectively, according to DataQuick, a housing analytics company. By 2012, the absentee buyer share had risen to … Read more on Wall Street Journal

Meet The Dread Pirate Roberts, The Man Behind Booming Black Market Drug …
In the last two and a half years Silk Road has grown into the Web's busiest bazaar for heroin, methamphetamines, crack, cocaine, LSD, ecstasy and enough strains of marijuana to put an Amsterdam coffee shop to shame. … Despite the giant DEA crosshairs … Read more on Forbes