Gordon Vaughan

Dallas-Fort Worth just logged its 100th corporate headquarters relocation since 2018. And it added 11 more in 2025 alone. No other market in the United States is close. According to CBRE's analysis of 725 public headquarters announcements, DFW leads every metro in the country over a seven year stretch. Austin is second with 81. Nashville is a distant third at 35. The companies leaving are coming from the same places every time. San Francisco. San Jose. Los Angeles. New York. Chicago. High taxes, regulatory burden, and cost pressure are pushing them out and DFW keeps catching them. These are Fortune level companies such as; Charles Schwab, McKesson, AECOM, Toyota, KFC, and NVIDIA chose Dallas as the cornerstone of its plan to manufacture AI supercomputers in the US. Even CBRE itself moved its global headquarters from Los Angeles to Dallas. These aren't small companies, these are major institutions making very deliberate decisions about where they want to operate for the next decade. Here's what makes this story interesting from a real estate perspective. A hundred corporate headquarters don't arrive quietly. They bring employees. Employees need housing. Housing creates retail demand. Retail demand drives industrial activity. And all of it requires office space, warehouse space, and infrastructure to support it. We have assets in the Dallas and Houston markets and have watched this dynamic play out in real time. Corporate relocations don't just fill office buildings. They reshape entire submarkets. Leasing velocity picks up. Rents follow. Investors take notice. One hundred relocations in seven years doesn't happen by accident. It happens because the market earned it. Source: CBRE — The Shifting Landscape of Headquarters Relocations: 2026 Update (Link below)

This reminds me of when I lived in Japan and I had wisdom tooth surgery. They had to put me fully under because there was an issue with my teeth having fused to the jaw. One tooth took a full 45 minutes to remove. They did the surgery, but had not inserted any pain meds as they'd estimated it would take about 30 minutes for me to wake up and a few hours to become aware. Well, I heard some rustling, sme white noise, and then I literally heard them *click* the anesthesia machine off. My eyes shot open. I tried to sit up, intubation tube still in my throat. The nurses grabbed me and shoved me back on the table. One of the Japanese surgeons removed the intubation tube and I sprang up again. The other Japanese surgeon was plastered against the wall on the far side of the room, face plastered in shock as if he'd just seen a ghost. I screamed at him in Japanese, "WHERE ARE MY TEETH???" He scrambled for my wisdom teeth in a little plastic container and handed them to me. I screamed back, "THANK YOU. OH MY GOD THIS HURTS SO MUCH!!!" They raced me back to my room and immediately inserted an IV. Everyone was panicked as I cried in pain. I asked the surgeon how long was I asleep after he finished, and he said he'd finished the last stitch like a minute before they turned the anesthesia machine off. I'd literally started to wake up a full minute before the machine had been turned off. Yeah, not a fun experience.

'Much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.' -- Fred Brooks

In the Soviet Union, the ruling elite was called the Nomenklatura -- the party officials and bureaucrats who held all the money and power. Every socialist/communist country ends up with a Nomenklatura.

North Korea's ruling elite shop at state-run stores stocked exclusively with foreign goods purchased using hard currency. This, while ordinary citizens face rationing, empty shelves, and death for attempting to trade freely. This captures the inevitable logic of socialist central planning. When you abolish private property and market pricing, you destroy the information system that coordinates economic activity. The state cannot calculate what to produce, how much to produce, or how to distribute resources efficiently. Ludwig von Mises explained this calculation problem in 1920, decades before North Korea even existed. Central planners face a choice: either everyone suffers equally in poverty, or they create a two-tier system where the political class enjoys privileges while the masses starve. North Korea chose the second option. The Kim regime imports luxury goods using foreign currencies (earned through black market exports, weapons sales, and cyber theft) while forcing 25 million citizens to use worthless won for their daily bread. The regime's elite stores stock Japanese electronics, European wines, and American cigarettes. Meanwhile, ordinary North Koreans trade illegally in private markets called jangmadang, risking imprisonment or execution for the crime of voluntary exchange. The state tolerates these markets only because without them, the entire population would starve. Every socialist experiment produces this same outcome: political elites living like capitalists while preaching equality to the masses. The North Korean elite don't shop at state stores because they believe in central planning.

Bacteria move around using a molecular machine called the flagellar motor that rotates faster than the flywheel of a race car engine and switches directions in an instant. After 50 yrs, scientists have finally figured out how it works. “My lifelong quest is now fulfilled.” Link⤵️

People who missed out on having babies because of "messages" you received. What were these messages? As someone who writes articles for a living I would love to go as viral as these seemingly very potent girlboss "messages!"

Bacteria move around using a molecular machine called the flagellar motor that rotates faster than the flywheel of a race car engine and switches directions in an instant. After 50 yrs, scientists have finally figured out how it works. “My lifelong quest is now fulfilled.” Link⤵️