Podcast appearances and mentions of christopher herbert

The Rt.Revd. Dr Christopher Herbert, former Bishop of St. Albans, says the information on Lyme disease in the UK misleads GP's, Nurses and patients.  There should be more robust data gathering on people diagnosed with Lyme and it should be a notifiable disease. He says “The NHS's level of ignorance about lyme is amazingly bad….  If the data isn't collected how can the Government know the scale of the problem?…. This is the most devastating disease with long term consequences for everybody involved."

In this Real Estate News Brief for the week ending August 13, 2022… a surprise inflation report, how that might impact mortgage rates, and a solution for the housing crisis involving women and immigrants.Hi, I'm Kathy Fettke and this is Real Estate News for Investors. If you like our podcast, please subscribe and leave us a review.Economic NewsWe begin with economic news from this past week. The report on the Consumer Price Index, or CPI, shows a bigger-than-expected decline in July. According to the Labor Department, the annual rate of inflation dropped from 9.1% to 8.5%. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had expected a reading of 8.7%. The decrease was mostly due to a big drop in gas prices. The core rate, which omits prices for fuel and food, was also better than expected at 5.9%. (1)Producer prices also put on the brakes in July. That index was down .5% after a 1% jump in June. As reported by Market Watch, it's the first drop in producer prices since April of 2020. (2)Jobless claims were up by about 14,000 to a total of 262,000 new claims for the week. There's been a slow increase in applications as the Fed tightens its monetary policy and companies tighten their belts, slightly. Stuart Hoffman at PNC Financial told CNBC: “The rise in initial claims since early April is a cool breeze blowing over a hot labor market.” Continuing claims also rose to a total of about 1.43 million. (3)Consumers are feeling a little better about the economy because of falling gas prices. The University of Michigan's Consumer Sentiment Index was up four points to 55.1 in August. MarketWatch reports that lower gas prices have put consumers in a better mood but they are still concerned about the cost of things like food and rent. (4)Mortgage RatesMortgage rates also jumped back over 5% last week. Freddie Mac says the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose 21 basis points to 5.22%. The 15-year was 4.59%.Freddie says: “Although rates continue to fluctuate, recent data suggests that the housing market is stabilizing as it transitions from a surge of activity during the pandemic to a more balanced market.” (5)In other news making headlines…NAR: Mortgage Rates May Have Topped OutThe latest inflation reports have led some economists to believe that we won't see mortgages go much higher than they are now. The Chief Economist for the National Association of Realtors, Lawrence Yun, believes that the worst of the situation is now behind us. (6)He said in a realtor.com blog: “If there is a sustained decline in gasoline prices and more production of apartments and single-family homes, consumer prices will pull back, encouraging the Federal Reserve policy to be less aggressive.” And that: “Mortgage rates will fall.”Auction.com: Foreclosure Spike ExpectedForeclosure activity is expected to increase over the next 12 months, as pandemic-related protections expire for seriously delinquent homeowners. The information comes from a survey by Auction.com with dozens of clients. (7)The survey shows that nine in 10 mortgage servicers are expecting more foreclosures. 74% expect a “slight increase” while 15% expect a “substantial increase.”The expected foreclosure rate is below historical averages nationwide but some clients expect 30% or more of their delinquent inventory to end up in foreclosure. The survey shows that the loans most likely to foreclose are government-insured loans and properties in the Midwest.Women & Immigrants to the Rescue!Getting more women and immigrants interested in the construction industry could help solve the housing crisis. Home builders have been dealing with a severe labor shortage, and a Harvard researcher told members of Congress recently, that the industry could expand its workforce by promoting the industry to women and immigrants. (8)Harvard's Christopher Herbert says the industry is “overwhelmingly male” and needs more women on the job. He also pointed out that 20 years ago “we built two million homes a year… and a lot of that was through immigration.” Currently, about 25% of workers are immigrants although some states, like California and Texas, have a much higher percentage. About 11% of construction workers are women.That's it for today. If you'd like to read more about any of these topics, check the show notes (below) for links at newsforinvestors.com. And please remember to hit the subscribe button, and leave a review!If you haven't yet joined RealWealth, please sign up. It's free and will give you access to our members-only Investor Portal where you'll find data on specific markets, the property teams that we work with, and other resources. Thanks for listening. I'm Kathy Fettke.Links:1 -https://www.marketwatch.com/story/coming-up-u-s-july-cpi-data-due-at-8-30-am-eastern-11660132986?mod=mw_latestnews2 -https://www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-producer-prices-moderate-in-july-11660221842?mod=bnbh_mwarticle3 -https://www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-jobless-claims-move-higher-in-latest-week-continuing-recent-trend-11660222483?mod=economic-report4 -https://www.marketwatch.com/story/falling-gas-prices-buoy-consumer-sentiment-temper-inflation-expectations-11660313127?mod=newsviewer_click5 -https://www.freddiemac.com/pmms6 -https://magazine.realtor/daily-news/2022/08/11/yun-slowing-inflation-suggests-mortgage-rates-have-topped-out7 -https://www.housingwire.com/articles/expect-a-foreclosure-spike-in-the-coming-months/8 -https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-solution-to-the-labor-shortage-in-construction-more-women-and-immigrants-says-harvard-researcher-11657823746?mod=real-estate-construction

We’re finally back in the streets -- but are we ready to reimagine how we share public space? This week, a trip through the century-long fight between cars, bikes, and people. Kai Wright takes us on a bike tour across Brooklyn - alongside Streetsblog New York reporter Dave Colon - to survey the ways in which inequity is built into the blacktop. Former New York City Traffic Commissioner Sam Schwartz a.k.a. Gridlock Sam shares a behind-the-scenes look at the history of the city’s streets and how our relationship to public space has transformed - for better or worse.  WNYC transportation reporter Stephen Nessen talks about Vision Zero, the push for biking infrastructure and why mayoral candidates’ rhetoric about safe streets is revolutionary. Read Stephen's latest reporting on Gothamist, including “Who Will Be The Next Vision Zero Mayor?” And we hear a clip of an artistic rendition of the battle for the city’s streets through “A Marvelous Order,” an opera conceived by three artists: composer Judd Greenstein, poet Tracy K. Smith, and visual artist and director Joshua Frankel. The selection features Megan Schubert as Jane Jacobs; with Eliza Bagg, Kelvin Chan, Marisa Clementi, Tomás Cruz, Lucy Dhegrae, Christopher Herbert, and Kamala Sankaram; conducted by David Bloom, and instrumentals by NOW Ensemble. Companion listening for this episode: “Government: A Love-Hate Story” (4/12/21) How did Americans come to think so poorly of government? And how did Joe Biden come to be the first modern president who’s even tried to change our minds? “Zoned for Resistance” (7/10/20) Chicago’s Little Village has been hit hard by COVID-19, but after a botched demolition left it coated in dust, one lifelong activist and her community are standing together while apart. “The United States of Anxiety” airs live on Sunday evenings at 6pm ET. The podcast episodes are lightly edited from our live broadcasts. To catch all the action, tune into the show on Sunday nights via the stream on WNYC.org/anxiety or tell your smart speakers to play WNYC.  We want to hear from you! Connect with us on Twitter @WNYC using the hashtag #USofAnxiety or email us at anxiety@wnyc.org.

This episode is inspired by The Free Library’s collection of Pennsylvania German printed books, manuscripts, and works of art. Our guests are Dr. Alex Ames and Dr. Christopher Herbert. Ames is author of The Word in The Wilderness, host of Cloister Talk: The Pennsylvania German Material Texts Podcast, and Collections Engagement Manager at the Rosenbach Museum & Library. Herbert is a musicologist, professional opera singer, and Assistant Professor at William Paterson University where he leads the Vocal Studies program. His current research and our conversation today focus on the music of the Ephrata Cloister, an eighteenth-century commune in Pennsylvania.

Not all gold rushes are created equal, argues Christopher Herbert, Associate Professor of History at Columbia Basin College. Dr. Herbert’s new book, Gold Rush Manliness: Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope (University of Washington Press, 2018) is a comparative study of Western gold rushes in British Columbia and California. Herbert argues that conceptions of what it meant to be white, what it meant to present as male, and what it meant to specifically be a white man taking part in a gold rush differed depending on when and where an individual stood. Clothing, cleanliness, routes of travel, and extracurricular activities like gambling all mattered quite a bit in identifying as part of a racial or gender group in the chaotic Gold Rush West. Herbert offers a new take on an old subject and demonstrates the power of comparative history to find new perspectives on well-worn stories. Stephen Hausmann is a doctoral candidate at Temple University and Visiting Instructor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently writing his dissertation, a history of race and the environment in the Black Hills and surrounding northern plains region of South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Not all gold rushes are created equal, argues Christopher Herbert, Associate Professor of History at Columbia Basin College. Dr. Herbert’s new book, Gold Rush Manliness: Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope (University of Washington Press, 2018) is a comparative study of Western gold rushes in British Columbia and California. Herbert argues that conceptions of what it meant to be white, what it meant to present as male, and what it meant to specifically be a white man taking part in a gold rush differed depending on when and where an individual stood. Clothing, cleanliness, routes of travel, and extracurricular activities like gambling all mattered quite a bit in identifying as part of a racial or gender group in the chaotic Gold Rush West. Herbert offers a new take on an old subject and demonstrates the power of comparative history to find new perspectives on well-worn stories. Stephen Hausmann is a doctoral candidate at Temple University and Visiting Instructor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently writing his dissertation, a history of race and the environment in the Black Hills and surrounding northern plains region of South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Not all gold rushes are created equal, argues Christopher Herbert, Associate Professor of History at Columbia Basin College. Dr. Herbert’s new book, Gold Rush Manliness: Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope (University of Washington Press, 2018) is a comparative study of Western gold rushes in British Columbia and California. Herbert argues that conceptions of what it meant to be white, what it meant to present as male, and what it meant to specifically be a white man taking part in a gold rush differed depending on when and where an individual stood. Clothing, cleanliness, routes of travel, and extracurricular activities like gambling all mattered quite a bit in identifying as part of a racial or gender group in the chaotic Gold Rush West. Herbert offers a new take on an old subject and demonstrates the power of comparative history to find new perspectives on well-worn stories. Stephen Hausmann is a doctoral candidate at Temple University and Visiting Instructor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently writing his dissertation, a history of race and the environment in the Black Hills and surrounding northern plains region of South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Not all gold rushes are created equal, argues Christopher Herbert, Associate Professor of History at Columbia Basin College. Dr. Herbert’s new book, Gold Rush Manliness: Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope (University of Washington Press, 2018) is a comparative study of Western gold rushes in British Columbia and California. Herbert argues that conceptions of what it meant to be white, what it meant to present as male, and what it meant to specifically be a white man taking part in a gold rush differed depending on when and where an individual stood. Clothing, cleanliness, routes of travel, and extracurricular activities like gambling all mattered quite a bit in identifying as part of a racial or gender group in the chaotic Gold Rush West. Herbert offers a new take on an old subject and demonstrates the power of comparative history to find new perspectives on well-worn stories. Stephen Hausmann is a doctoral candidate at Temple University and Visiting Instructor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently writing his dissertation, a history of race and the environment in the Black Hills and surrounding northern plains region of South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Not all gold rushes are created equal, argues Christopher Herbert, Associate Professor of History at Columbia Basin College. Dr. Herbert’s new book, Gold Rush Manliness: Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope (University of Washington Press, 2018) is a comparative study of Western gold rushes in British Columbia and California. Herbert argues that conceptions of what it meant to be white, what it meant to present as male, and what it meant to specifically be a white man taking part in a gold rush differed depending on when and where an individual stood. Clothing, cleanliness, routes of travel, and extracurricular activities like gambling all mattered quite a bit in identifying as part of a racial or gender group in the chaotic Gold Rush West. Herbert offers a new take on an old subject and demonstrates the power of comparative history to find new perspectives on well-worn stories. Stephen Hausmann is a doctoral candidate at Temple University and Visiting Instructor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently writing his dissertation, a history of race and the environment in the Black Hills and surrounding northern plains region of South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christopher Herbert, managing director of Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, explains whether there’s reason for concern about the state of the US housing market, which has been beset by falling homeownership rates, rising rents, stalling incomes and demographic shifts that threaten to exacerbate trends towards inequality. If you’d like to learn more, you can read the 2015 State of the Nation’s Housing Report at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies website.