Month in review: April, 2014: Part 1, A blogger’s thoughts should exceed his...
[Previous Months in Review available here: Mar 14, Feb 14, Jan 14] By: David A. Smith Great artists work out their ideas in cartoons: Well, I’m no Raphael Inventors brainstorm in sketchbooks: Not a...
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[Previous Months in Review available here: Mar 14, Feb 14, Jan 14] [Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] By: David A. Smith Yesterday’s Part 1 of this two-part review of April’s posts noted that a...
View ArticleBuilt upon the lands of time: Part 1, Land value = Property value
By: David A. Smith This post has a hero – and an unlikely one to be spotlighted in a story from The New York Times (12 June 2015) – an investment banker: Who was that unmasked man? Marc Cooper knew...
View ArticleBuilt upon the lands of time: Part 2, The Rule of Four-Sevenths
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] By: David A. Smith End of lease approaching In yesterday’s Part 1 chronicling the happy if expensive ending of a 32-year saga of a co-op that ‘forgot’ to buy the...
View ArticleBuilt upon the lands of time: Part 3, 8.2% annual appreciation for 32 years
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] By: David A. Smith Rio Sand Castle After capital reinvetsment While the story reported in The New York Times (12 June 2015) of the Tower –...
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