Author Archives: MN Gordon
Why Residential Rental Prices are off their Rocker
“Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years,” go the sage words of Warren Buffett. At present, this advice is especially important. For asset prices are expensive. Stocks are near … Continue reading
This Market’s Bound to Bust
Sporting events are overrated. Think of the latest Mayweather vs Pacquiao fight. What a dud that turned out to be…twelve rounds of pat-a-cake. We’ve seen harder hits watching the squirrels go at it along the back fence. For any real … Continue reading
Cynics and the Big Fat Greek Default
“Crito, we owe a rooster to Asclepius. Please don’t forget to pay the debt,” were the final words of Socrates. He uttered them shortly after downing poison hemlock in 399 BC, in fulfillment of his death sentence for corrupting the … Continue reading
Monkey Economics
Despite the advent of the tablet phone and microwave kettle corn, there are still rudimentary evolutionary responses hardwired into the core of the human psyche. During moments of failing they take over and suppress clear thinking. How else can one … Continue reading
