Tom Hudson
@HudsonsView
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Journalist, financial broadcaster, syndicated columnist, news manager. Paddling through the river of information in search of meaning.
Joined December 2009
Great look by @WLRN's Tom Hudson at how the real estate sausage is made in #Florida and the U.S.@HudsonsView. https://t.co/i85wTS2G5v
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Federal lawsuits are challenging the way real estate agents are paid commissions. No place has more at stake than Florida.
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Major legal fights over longstanding commission practices may upend Florida's real estate business (via @HudsonsView)
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Federal lawsuits are challenging the way real estate agents are paid commissions. No place has more at stake than Florida.
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How South Florida is a study in economic contrasts for the Biden administration (via @HudsonsView)
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South Florida represents extremes of two important economic barometers for the Biden administration — low unemployment but stubborn inflation.
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Is that sand in your keyboard? Billions of income dollars moved to South Florida (via @HudsonsView)
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When the pandemic spurred people to move to Florida, they may not have changed jobs, but they brought their paychecks with them – almost $40 billion worth. And a lot of that came to South Florida.
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Happening now: https://t.co/bBhsHwTnMw What's working and not working one year into the humanitarian parole program w/ @TimPadgett2 @verozaragovia @TooMuchMe @WLRN
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The persistent pay gap – and other disparities – between men and women in Miami (via @HudsonsView)
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‘When women and girls thrive, economies thrive.’ The Women’s Fund of Miami-Dade aims to measure and track gender differences in the economy, health, leadership and violence.
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A strong job market now, so why are these two owners worried? (via @HudsonsView)
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Florida job growth has led the nation, and Friday's jobs report showed a surprising increase in hiring in sectors that are key to the state's job market. But some worry about higher interest rates...
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"If we don't open, mom can't go to work," a childcare provider told me in 2022. I caught up with her to hear about she is preparing for the end of COVID-era grants for childcare providers.
How two childcare centers used COVID money - and prepare for it to run out (via @HudsonsView)
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Wait, see - but do 'whatever it takes' on inflation, guides regional Fed leader (via @HudsonsView)
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Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Raphael Bostic sticks with a message of patience while in Broward County — but is firm in the fight against inflation.
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Idalia hit one of Florida's poorest areas. How could that impact an economic recovery? (via @HudsonsView)
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The low population and low property values in the Big Bend area compared to the rest of the state means local governments have less financial resources to respond. The eventual insured loss is...
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Hear what one of the world's busiest cruise ports sounded like in May 2021 and what it sounded like last month. Click and listen.
South Florida's cruise business is, well, cruising again (via @HudsonsView)
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Florida politics are too hot for some business visitors (via @HudsonsView)
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Broward County has lost out on about $20 million of conventions and conferences as organizers point to the political climate in Florida. While that’s a drop in the bucket of the multi-billion dollar...
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For your weekend reading - the incredible tale of how the Federal Reserve raced to stop a bank run in Havana almost a century ago. Bags of $5s and $10s, a railroad hopscotching to Key West, and a drunken midnight voyage across the Florida Straits. #FederalReserve #Cuba #History
"A once-confidential tale of millions of dollars in $5 and $10 bills sent barreling to Key West on Flagler’s Train to Paradise, before crossing the Florida Straits in a tense, liquor-soaked journey on a Cuban gunboat." via @HudsonsView
https://t.co/eP6m4AP7b0
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The Week Ahead: Where inflation is not slowing down even as the Fed may ease up (a little) Headline inflation may be headed down (thanks cheaper gasoline) but other prices have kept climbing. https://t.co/5i1uNoOgQy
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#inflation #StockMarket #economy #interestrates
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I have worked with this group for many years. The school is proof that a caring school with good food, clean water and a safe environment changes lives. Find out how you can help make a brighter future for a child. @educatebwindi
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A Dicksenian tale for consumers and investors this holiday spending season. Via @MiamiHerald
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National Retail Federation thinks holiday sales will grow by almost twice their normal rate.
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Imagine if the housing market was covered in the news like the stock market. https://t.co/wqsuZwvKzX A reminder than the wealth effect of housing is greater than that of stocks. via @MiamiHerald
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More Americans own their homes, or at least co-own them with a lender, than own stocks.
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Today was my last day at @WLRN. It has been my honor and luck to work with great colleagues in pursuit of great journalism. I was grateful to be able to say thanks to the South Florida community.
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