Jerry Howard
Timber From Russia, With Love... Blame Canada!
Instead of yet another bleak housing market report, we would like to share some wonderful post-Cold War news: American home builders visiting St. Petersburg have offered to share their top-secret technology, in exchange for... softwood lumber.
Why the cross-continental bargaining? Because as of next month, our very own Canadian neighbors will be starting "a complex system of border taxes and quotas that will artificially raise lumber prices."
In short, those damn Canadians have forced us to share our precious housing secrets with those damn Russians. Can't a patriarchic global superpower ever catch a break? read more »
Our first press release from SAINT-PETERSBURG is after the jump.
- Max Abelson
