Face questions any moment now, we expect john kirby to join Karine Jeanpierre on the podium after a busy weekend on the international front. More on that in just a moment. Sandra the briefing comes amid renewed questions about President Bidens age and the 2024 election. Well see if The White House gets pressed on any of that. John welcome back as America Reports rolls into hour number two. Im john roberts in washington, off to a rolicking start this week. Sandra we will be monitoring that Press Briefing and will bring the news as it comes in, but first this fox news alert. John major powers testing the United States on The World State yet again, starting with saudi arabia after the oil rich kingdom announced more cuts and threatening another summer of high gas prices. Sandra China Making Waves in the taiwan strait, a Chinese Navy Ship cutting across the path of an american destroyer. John dont forget about russia, Vladimir Putin leaning on the back of the Chinese Communist party as he
face questions any moment now, we expect john kirby to join karine jean-pierre on the podium after a busy weekend on the international front. more on that in just a moment. sandra: the briefing comes amid renewed questions about president biden s age and the 2024 election. we ll see if the white house gets pressed on any of that. john: welcome back as america reports rolls into hour number two. i m john roberts in washington, off to a rolicking start this week. sandra: we will be monitoring that press briefing and will bring the news as it comes in, but first this fox news alert. john: major powers testing the united states on the world state yet again, starting with saudi arabia after the oil rich kingdom announced more cuts and threatening another summer of high gas prices. sandra: china making waves in the taiwan strait, a chinese navy ship cutting across the path of an american destroyer. john: don t forget about russia, vladimir putin leaning on the back of
mortgage rates, through tax policy, through, you name it, even through flood insurance. that is subsidized by taxpayers. we don t get people owning homes that they can afford. we create as taxpayers manias, and it s because you want me to tell you why? it s because of the real estate lobby. sandra: well, the government has not exactly proven they are good at this. the let s be clear. sound evidence of that. i don t think a lot of people think kamala harris has the answer either. what happens is you get these left wing people taking advantage of these policies that already exist. so, median home price is 437, and subsidized mortgage in some areas over a million dollars. why? sandra: help more people get into homes but the home prices will keep going higher with the demand and then and then it just hurts everybody. good to have you both here. thank you for hanging on with us, too, by the way.
Cement manufacturers lash out at builders for ‘diversionary tactics’
January 12, 2021
N Srinivasan, Vice Chairman & Managing Director, India Cements.×
This is probably the first-ever strong reaction from cement body to the accusation of cartelisation by real estate firms
Cement manufacturers in the south have urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take steps to break the real estate builders lobby that indulges in diversionary tactics to protect the exorbitant margins they were making in sale of house prices without clean records.
This is probably the first-ever strong reaction from cement manufacturers to the accusation of cartelisation by real estate firms and recently by Union Minister of Road Transport Nitin Gadkari .
no, they are not dictating but encouraging. they are doing it by use of coercion. if i don t do what they tell me buy a house they take more of my money. there s a gun behind this encouragement. look at this from the real estate lobby. there s 8,000 dollars in here. the national association of realtors wants you to take advantage of the first-time homebuyer tax credit. uncle sam winking. there s benefits from this. there s a pressure group behind each one of these deductions that are benefitting directly association of builders. there are more of these deductions because they are more and more pressure groups that get formed just for the purpose of getting these tax deductions.