To: Whomever found my blog with the search query, “how to pick a Realtor’s lockbox.” From: Your friendly neighborhood Realtor-blogger. I hope whoever was searching the Web with the query, “how to pick a Realtor’s lockbox” yesterday is a Realtor who lost their combo code. Assuming that it wasn’t, though, here is a list of...Read More
Make that *200 Mercedes Benzes, at $100k a pop Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz ? My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends. Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends, So Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz ? –Janis Joplin; lyrics, “Mercedes Benz” It’s hard...Read More
It’s Supposed to Work in the Midwest, at Least One of the all-time high school pranks growing up — at least according to urban legend — was going to the mall and acting like you lost a contact lens. Step 2: a couple confederates join your “search.” What’s supposed to happen next is, clueless passersby...Read More
Warren Buffett’s Freudian Slip This land is your landThis land is my(?) landFrom California to the New York islandFrom the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream watersThis land was made for you (and me?). –Lyrics, “This Land is Your Land”; Woody Guthrie (tweaked by Ross Kaplan) The first time I read “Pretty Good for...Read More
Corporate Campaign Contributions In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court decided that corporations could spend as much as they wished at any time, assuming there was no direct coordination with the candidate. In doing so, the court overturned its own precedents and refused to distinguish the free speech rights of corporations and...Read More
Still Calling the Shots Goldman Sachs has inundated the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission with data ” about five terabytes, equivalent to several billion printed pages ” and dragged its feet on answering detailed questions about derivatives securitization and other business activities, two panel members told reporter on a conference call. “We did not ask them...Read More
