Star Trib: ‘YouTube is Coming Trend’ The most interesting thing to me about the lead story in today’s Star Tribune business section, “Increasing Numbers of Metro Realtors Turn to YouTube,” wasn’t the content, but the byline: the reporter is identified as “a University of Minnesota student reporter on assignment for the Star Tribune.” Hmm ....Read More
Confused by the Crisis? Watch ThisBarry Ritholtz’s blog, “The Big Picture,” features a video — “The Crisis of Credit Visualized” — that provides one of the single best explanations of today’s market melt-down/credit crisis I’ve seen yet. (The video is also available on YouTube in two installments). It identifies all the players and pieces, puts...Read More
Bucking the Tide: Small CitiesShow Best ’08 Appreciation According to First American CoreLogic Inc., the 11 cities with the highest home price appreciation in 2008 are: Cedar Rapids, Iowa: 8.83 percentBinghamton, N.Y.: 7.78 percentAmsterdam, N.Y.: 7.89 percentMalone, N.Y.: 7.60 percentBay City, Mich.: 6.87 percentCollege Station-Bryan: 6.78 percentRocky Mount, N.C.: 6.69 percentAuburn, N.Y.: 6.51 percentLebanon, Pa.:...Read More
New Virtues: Small, Simple, & Local(or, Bottom’s Up) Just as our political regeneration will happen locally, in counties and states that learn how to control themselves and demonstrate how to govern effectively in a time of limits, so will our economic regeneration. That will begin in someone’s garage, somebody’s kitchen . . . The comeback...Read More
