New Way to Deal With Tailgaters If the driver in front of you does something they shouldn’t — or doesn’t do something they should (like move when the light turns green) — you honk. Eventually (it IS Minnesota). 🙂 But, what if the offending driver is behind you? Then, it often seems like Driver...Read More
Alternatives to Dropping the Price When a Home Doesn’t Sell Unfortunately for owners of “For Sale” homes that . . . aren’t (selling), the explanation is seldom just mediocre marketing. If that were the case, the solution would be simple: great marketing (supplied by a new and presumably better Realtor). Instead, at least in my experience,...Read More
Norway + Greece = ?? If busted sovereigns were banks, policymakers would know exactly what to do: fold the bankrupt country into a designated “acquirer” with a strong (or at least stronger) balance sheet, which is then given a package of cheap financing, guaranties, and indemnity (or maybe not) in return for straightening out the...Read More
“How About Standing on One Foot and Hopping?” I almost had to buy a new printer for my home office this week. Not because the old one broke (it was working fine). Not because I got a new PC and it was somehow incompatible (still using the same 4 year-old Mac). It turns out the reason...Read More
Cure Worse Than the Disease?, or, Attached at the Right (Left) Hip I first wrote about “phantom cellphone vibration” — the sensation that your cellphone is ringing when you’re standing in the shower, naked — almost 2 1/2 years ago. See, “Where’s the Rest of Me? The Phantom Cellphone Vibration.” As my, uhhh . . . condition...Read More
Looking for the New Volcker’s Regular readers of this blog know that I could hardly be a harsher critic of modern-day Wall Street: its practices; its obscene pay for little or no economic contribution (“Wall Street is Worthless“); and its corrupting influence on our government and society generally. And I’ve got plenty of company. As...Read More
