While NYC continues to thrive and attract new residents, the rest of the state is hemorrhaging. Statistics recently released reveal a net loss of 328,538 people since 2010. I wonder what the figure would have been had fracking been approved. Maybe those who have fled are the conservatives Governor Cuomo and Mayor DeBlasio ridicule. Hopefully the numbers have bottomed out. How many newcomers can Florida and Texas absorb?
On his radio program this morning on WOR-AM, Mark Simone segued from talk of the Grammys to music royalties. He said that at the height of his popularity Billy Joel, whose work was played across several formats, was earning $14 million a year. He cited an obvious fact I hadn't realized previously. When a song is played on the radio, the writer/composer receives the royalty, not the artist. Performers make money from recording contracts and concerts. Recently, Bert Bachrach was complaining about the drying up of royalties. According to Simone, sites like Pandora pay far less than the record companies once did.
I woke up to a nasty dream just after four AM. I was being excoriated for trades I'd missed by brokers on the NYMEX floor. I haven't worked there since October 2007. How amazing that the place still has a significant hold on my subconscious. Since I'm not employed there I suspect the dream had something to do with my frustration over the mediocre of sales of my latest novel, Exchanges, and my frustration at the floating book shop being sidelined by the cold and snow. The temperature is supposed to moderate tomorrow, but I'll be in Jersey celebrating my great nephew's birthday. And the forecast for Sunday and Monday is not promising. I miss my regular customers and acquaintances.
My thanks to Ipsos surveys for the deposit into my Paypal account.
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