Shop Talk: How deficits and political gridlock could benefit real estate investors Adam Ruggiero, the head of real estate research and strategy for MetLife Investment Management, recently authored an investment strategy report titled Real Estate and Reflation, in which he and his co-authors counterintuitively reason that rising deficits and partisan political gridlock in Washington, D.C., might actually work in favor of real estate investors. He joins us to elaborate on why he and research team members have come to that conclusion. (02/2019)