Archive for August, 2005
How do you get this kind of money?
Da Vinci (see article below) are basically telling the world they can buy anything they want with 5% down. In yen, here’s their breakdown:
50 B from own sources (itself a fund)
250 B from corp and institutional investors
and the remaining 70% from lenders of commercial paper.
Hey, I’m smart and have a proven record… I can put [...]
Why doesn’t this exist?
Why can’t I buy a fax machine that has an ethernet port on it?
Think about it… a fax machine turns hard copies into digital data, then turns it back into analog (sounds and such over a phone line), then back to digital and back to hard copy.
So how about we skip the dematerialize portion of [...]
San Diego condos
The major news sources I monitor reported a slowdown in the San Diego condo market last week. Based on what I saw last week when I was there, it looks true.
I was searching within approximately a 4 square mile area, and there were almost 40 available properties that turned up in that area within my [...]
