Stop the Presses! I just finished Thomas Friedman’s excellent Op-Ed from tomorrow’s Sunday New York Times (I’m not clairvoyant — it’s online now), devoted to the leadership vacuum in today’s Middle East (if not the world). You just wonder if the headline writer — presumably, it wasn’t Friedman — bothered to do more than just skim...Read More
Is Facebook Stock a Bargain? “Small Investors May Get to Own Bit of Facebook.” –Headline, The New York Times (5/4/2012) “I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member.” –Groucho Marx (oft-quoted by Woody Allen and many, many others) Is Facebook stock a deal at a...Read More
Lake of the Isles Classic Original character? Check. Terrific location? Check. Great curb appeal, condition, updates, and well-priced at $1.295 million (below the tax assessed value)? You betcha. So, what’s the . . . uhh, hold-up? A whopping $26,329 annual property tax bill! If the City of Minneapolis was trying to dissuade upper bracket Buyers from...Read More
