There are many ways to make your home more Earth-friendly. But they can be expensive, especially upfront. If you don’t have the money to upgrade your air conditioner or refrigerator, or put in dual-pane windows, how else can you be good to our planet?
 
I consider myself a light-green homeowner. Not perfectly green. Luckily, green comes […]

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Tuning in to TV news in recent weeks I am hearing more predictions that we have reached the bottom of the real estate market. In other words, housing prices are getting as low as they are going to get. I think this is especially true in towns like Chico where foreclosures were at a minimum.
There […]

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Here is an interesting story written by a Realty World broker in Sunnyvale, CA. She was telling me of her experience, and I asked her if I could post it for all of you to read. Good stuff to know…
You’ve heard about real estate auctions and you may be wondering if this is a good way […]

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Recently, a reader named Glen Summers made the following comment to one of my blogs:
I appreciate your insight, but feel a little more pessimistic about the future. I am not sure which basket I have decided on, but I have elected to transfer most of my funds into hard assets and cash and will continue […]

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Interesting comments today from Citigroup analyst Prashant Bhatia today about Lehman Brothers, a large Wall Street investment house like Bear Stearns. According to Bhatia, Lehman has “ample liquidity to run its business.”
The next comments were more to the point of our current economic condition:
“In our view it’s tough to have a liquidity-driven meltdown when you’re […]

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(See previous entries in this series, Walk with me, and Our walk, continued.)
Are we entering Level 3?
Remember, that’s the point where the pessimism (fear) begins to lift and some optimism (greed) returns to Wall Street. Is it beginning?
Consider this:
A few weeks ago the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets released its 21-page comprehensive study, which […]

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OK, let’s resume our walk into the closet. (We got started two weeks ago. You may review here.)
But first, a a disclaimer: Nothing on this site should be construed as investment advice or guidance. It is not intended as investment advice or guidance, nor is it offered as such. It is solely the opinion of […]

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I’ll return to the “Walk with me” theme in a day or so, but it occurred to me that there are a few economic basics that must be understood to comprehend where we are, how we got here and where we’re going. If you really want to go several layers deep, you’ve got to know […]

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Bear Stearns was a venerable Wall Street firm founded in 1923. It weathered the Great Depression, two World Wars, the stagflation of the ’70s and countless other crises. It collapsed over the weekend and was purchased by JPMorgan Chase & Co for $2 a share. The Fed helped put the deal together. Its 52-week high […]

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I will continue my walk to the five levels I spoke about earlier, but first I wanted to respond to a dear reader of our blog. This is particularly thrilling for me, because it confirms that there actually is a reader of my blog out there!
Travis writes:
March 13, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Just read the headlines […]

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