Author Archives: MN Gordon

Forecasts of Gloom

Just like the clockwork of a rooster’s call at dawn.  On the first day of June each year, coastal Southern California becomes encapsulated by dense gloom.  You can guarantee it. Out of state visitors mistake the gloom for smog.  But … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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