“THESE Guys are Good for $250k Apiece?? C’mon” * Like a lot of people who come to Vatopaidi, I suppose, I was less than perfectly sure what I was after. I wanted to see if it felt like a front for a commercial empire (it doesn’t) and if the monks seemed insincere (hardly). But I...Read More
(Pretty) Picture BookBefore I bought the current issue of Vanity Fair (to read Michael Lewis’ new article), I never understood why the cover included not just the featured articles, but their page numbers: because the cover is also the table of contents. Or more accurately, it’s one of two tables of contents; the second one...Read More
Putting a Price Tag on Proximity to Cedar Lake A client of mine says his engineer son-in-law has done a regression analysis calculating the premium associated with proximity to Minneapolis’ Cedar Lake. His number? $11,000 per block. If that’s correct, that’s a very valuable number to have, because lots of Realtors, appraisers — and their...Read More
