(image source) part I, part II, part III, part IV, part V, part VI are here They are waiting to join in, but will we help them, or just wait for them to figure it out on their own, if they ever? As with most liquid markets, casual end users come from time to time, but they are not the market. Market...

(image source) part I, part II, part III, part IV, part V are here Nobody wants to be a sucker. With auctions, the results of accurate pricing is a bidding war. Bidding war allows spectators to get in the game, assuring them that value exists in the marketplace, not just with one party, but with man...

I’m very fortunate. Since March/ April 2003 I’ve been able to blog for free, hosted by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. It’s an option open to anyone with a Harvard email address. While we all started with Radio Userland, Berkman switched everyone over to Wo...

Topics: A track by track review of ‘Red Light Fever’ from Darkness frontman Hot Leg. Listener emails, requests and a toast to Nick in Australia for the beer fund donation. Another toast to all of the donations for my SXSW fund. A Nashville Pussy show review. Music by: Ginger Hot Leg Nash...

(Image source) (For those who come late, part I and part II are here) When trying to liquidate via an auction offering, for optimal results, who should you price your items for? Liquidation isn’t about finding end users, it is about moving inventory, preferably quick. End users are hard to fin...

In Lichoulas v. City of Lowell , No. 08-1485, 08-2023 (1st Cir., Jan. 30, 2009), the U.S. Court of Appeals declined to rule on a property owner's objection to a taking for redevelopment, holding that public use challenges belong in state court. Interestingly, the court cited Williamson County Re...

I often drop in at  Thinking About…  where Julie puts up interesting and entertaining posts.  Not so very long ago she reproduced a list of books that the BBC website had shown some months ago.  There are 100 titles in all and the BBC, or whoever is in charge of this sort of thing at the BBC, ...

Posted By DoNotTreadOnMe Beijing, China — Sources at the United States Embassy in Beijing China have just CONFIRMED to me that the United States of America has tendered to China a written agreement which grants to the People’s Republic of China, an option to exercise Eminent Domain withi...

by: Robert McIntosh Because it looks like our wonderful new administration is granting the Chinese eminent domain as collateral for US debts. Yea you read that right. That means when we can no longer pay for all this massive spending the Chinese can call in the loans and take our land. The thought t...

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