Anyone who cares at all about this economy MUST realize that taxes must be low and the housing market must start up again.

These two things will drive small business and hire again the people who are currently unemployed.

Does anyone disagree? Does anyone think that increasing taxes and government spending is a good thing? If yes, please tell me how.

Thanks in advance,

This is a redo of a prior chart. I was simply going to update the earlier one but the works got lost. So a new version.

Shown are the median and average prices since 2000. A CPI line is provided to show the impact of inflation.





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About two or three years ago, my Dad and I went to the casino's on a rainy, miserable spring day to kill some time and blow off some steam. Though the casinos are a mere fifteen minutes from my house, rarely is the occasion that I go there with the exception of a group outing with my family on days such as this.

As is usual on the rare chance I head to the casino's, my Dad and I went straight to the craps tables where we put our money on the "Pass Line," played the "field",...

Ever wonder why Case Shiller? Well wonder no more. It is just pretty much the same old stuff you get from your local MLS.

Here is a plot of Case Shiller from 1990 versus the Las Vegas MLS data since 2000. This is the average MLS price and the CS index multiplied by the MLS January 2000 price. This is probably not the best match available but it seems sufficient. Delaying CS 45 days and dropping the base value a little would make an even better match.

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Yup. That's right folks.

Microsoft Windows is toast!

Google will shortly be rolling out a new operating system anchored by their newly developed internet browser called Chrome (based on the code underlying the open source Mozilla browser called Firefox...a great browser by the way).

In other words Google is throwing it's weight behind a push to seperate the local operating system from the computer and have an internet based operating system take it's...