…or so goes the quote from the buck nekid chick with a bone in her hair riding on the back of a zebra. For those of you too young or cultured to get that reference, don’t worry. It’s not germane to what we’re going to discuss here…Seattle real estate. This holiday season I was talking about [Continue]

So, I’m back in the USSA and looking over Redfin.com’s real estate site and notice that some of the neighborhoods in Seattle, WA are still in the fantasy leagues with regards to asking prices on used houses. As the real estate crash has hit other regions, it typically moves from the bad neighborhoods, and works its [Continue]

….Uh…December? Well, I’ve had quite the lapse in posting anything on this blog. I was looking at it this afternoon, and was amazing by how disorganized and chaotic this thing is. Hilarious. I *may* make an attempt to clean it up and categorize some things better. I already heard from two of the three people that have seen [Continue]

Well, there is that 1155 number we’ve been waiting on. It’s possible we can settle down in here for a bit. I have a negative bias going into the next week of trading, but it remains to be seen whether or not that will play out as predicted. The EU’s bailout plan seems like a lot [Continue]

I guess it was inevitable that ‘jingle mail’ went mainstream. Unfortunately, the guy they chose to open and close the segment comes off as a completely unsympathetic character. Watch CBS News Videos Online He’s an AUDITOR for a local UNIVERSITY….so first off, his employment solid, and second off he should have KNOWN better [Continue]

The plunge through 1150 on the S&P puts 1105 on deck. If the S&P can’t bounce up to the 1150ish area by the close, all eyes will be on 1105. Ok, that got a lot crazier than even I thought it would today. As you can see from a cursory view of the news or my [Continue]

I’ve been meaning to return from my hiatus from financial commentary for some time. The recent fubars in Greece and the EU’s predictable response is as good a catalyst as any to get back into the swing of things. Today looks like it might get interesting. More commentary at the close. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you [Continue]

ok…actually it’s supposed to be a ~ over the n but after 3.5 years of living in Uruguay i’m still too lazy to figure out the keystrokes to do that on an english keyboard. so, why embed this piece of art in my blog?  so next time i want to see some brilliance, i don’t have [Continue]

I started reading a brilliant book called “Emergency” by Neil Strauss. It was published in 2009, and I guess the reason I hadn’t really been exposed to it is because I’ve been down here. Neil is/was a writer for Rolling Stone and the New York Times and details his personal journey from a timid, shy, inept, city [Continue]

The holidays, and Christmas in particular are always an interesting time for the Expat. Some miss friends and family, some miss the traditions and the particularities of celebrating ‘back home”.  For me, it’s simply the dreading of trying to find appropriate gifts for friends and family when I am so far away and so out of [Continue]