The Best Kind of Marketing? The Free Kind Saturdays in early August are not an especially busy time for Realtor open houses. The exception? Anything for sale in the vicinity of Minneapolis’ Uptown neighborhood, host this weekend to the annual Art Fair. I counted at least six open houses in just the 2-3 block stretch...Read More
S&P Breaks Ranks So, after the U.S. stock market was safely closed yesterday at the end of a tumultuous week, Standard & Poor’s did the deed: it cut its rating of long-term U.S. debt from Triple-A to Double-A. Its competitors, Moody’s and Fitch, are likely to follow in short order, much like gas stations or...Read More