Free Lunch? No, (Almost) Free iPad Mini My advice: any time you can get $200 for a dated, near-obsolete electronics device . . . take it! So, apparently due to some sort of pre-Christmas price war(?), mega-retailers such as Target, Wal-Mart and Best Buy are all offering $200 credit for old iPads to buy new...Read More
“Hedonics,” Defined After almost 13 years, I finally popped for a new (home) office chair yesterday. The chair I retired — actually, handed down to son #2 — was an ergonomically correct, (then) state-of-the-art job purchased from a Relax the Back store in Manhattan for almost $800 in early 1998. Truth be told, it was...Read More
December S&P/Case-Shiller: Minneapolis Down 18.5% The latest S&P/Case Shiller numbers (for December) are out, and to no one’s surprise, they’re dreadful: all of the nation’s 20 largest housing markets show decreases, from the merely bad (Dallas, Denver) to the shocking (Las Vegas, Phoenix). Minneapolis shows an 18.5% drop from a year earlier. Before you jump...Read More
