Howard and Susan Meyers's Blog

The Shadow Knows...                                        I’m getting older, but not old enough to remember radio mysteries.  However, as a trivia fan, I am familiar with some of the tag lines from those shows.  Probably none is more noted than the refrain of a deep, creepy voice stating:“Who kn...

Financial Bubbles Take Years and Sometimes Decades to Overcome Yes, let me repeat that....Financial bubbles take years and sometimes decades to overcome.  When I say “overcome”, that does not necessarily mean returning to the glorious “boom times” of the pre-burst period, but rather to some level...

We Can Lead a Horse To Water.....A few times in the past year or so, we have had North Shore listings that didn’t sell and eventually, the sellers withdrew them from the market.  In each of these situations, we had recommended a lower initial asking price or price reductions and the seller either...

I often think back to a Wall Street Journal article which I read more than 20 years ago.  It discussed the record keeping practices (for income tax purposes) of small businesses in France.  It stated that the typical French business had three sets of books. They are:   The books which you show go...