Monthly Archives: November 2008

Courtesy of a friend, here are the twin Wall Street Journal’s Thanksgiving editorials, reprinted every year since 1961. The Journal has never seen fit to replace or update these and I sure don’t either. In fact, Vermont Royster’s observations seem … Continue reading →

I think I posted this before but it arrived back in my mailbox and it’s still hilarious – Hitler receiving word that his subprime mortge is in trouble. If you missed it the first time around, try it now. Hoo, … Continue reading →

So a guy in Cos Cob lists his Subaru on Craig’s list: 2007, take over lease, low mileage etc. My brother in Maine spots the ad, knows I’m looking for a car for my daughter, sends it me and there … Continue reading →

Nothing doing in the Greenwich market today: no contracts (well, that could be said of November as a whole) no interesting price reductions, no new listings and certainly no sales. So before I head out to attend to Thanksgiving food preparation … Continue reading →

Cancer rates decline in U.S. This simply can’t be true – we’re living in a toxic waste pile where every day Ralph Nader and his ilk discover new, ever-more threatening hazards like plastic water bottles, cellphones and latex paint. Cancer going … Continue reading →

Government guarantees “good” mortgages, Rates fall. That’s nice, but I worry at the seeming nonchalance with which our country is watching what’s left of our free market system turn into a centrally planned and run socialist scheme. When our cars are … Continue reading →

But some news crew made it out to Greenwich to Dickie Fuld’s house. Long tape with lots of boo-hooing by employees who seem to resent the bonuses Fuld and his cronies got but there’s a brief, amusing snippet at the … Continue reading →

California school bans kindergartners from dressing as Indians at Thanksgiving pageant.

From reader John Martin, elberonstation1975@yahoo.com   CONYERS Manor was named after E. C. Converse, who elected to use the Old English spelling and pronunciation of his family name to give a more baronial title to his 1551 acre estate in the … Continue reading →

Bloomberg thinks so. The trouble with this wave of nationalization of the investment bank business, from a Greenwich real estate perspective, is that government jobs rarely pay the kind of out-sized bonuses that sustained our wonderful prices for so long. State … Continue reading →

A reader sent me this link to an article in Barrons “Sand Castles – Half-Price Mansions”. Nothing new to Greenwich residents but it discusses the disappearance of foreign buyers, the reluctance of buyers to pay anything close to asking price, … Continue reading →