Archive for April, 2004

Triqui Houses

Thursday, April 29th, 2004

Building Houses for the Triqui People in Baja, Mexico
My wife and I are going down with a group to San Quintin, in Baja, Mexico to build houses for a local group of Triquis. The Triqui are an extremely poverished and ostracized group of Native Mexican “Indians”.
We will spend four days there from May 14-17. […]

Ready for the Next Bubble?

Wednesday, April 28th, 2004

One Fool’s Commentary on the Housing Bubble.
American house prices are up 30% since the mid-1990’s, the biggest real gain over any such period in recorded history, according to the Economist magazine.
As the experience in the recent stock market bubble demonstrates, identifying bubbles is an extremely difficult task. But valuation metrics similar to the ones used […]

Global Economic Prospects: Bright for 2004

Monday, April 26th, 2004

Led by an upsurge in Asia and in the United States, global economic growth should reach 4¾ percent on a year-over-year basis for 2004—equal to the strongest performance in a generation. Although recovery in Western Europe will continue to lag, most of the rest of the world will participate in the general global upswing, with […]

A Mind at Play

Sunday, April 25th, 2004

An interview with Martin Gardner.

Supermodel Personals

Saturday, April 24th, 2004

Not completely worksafe, but very funny: Supermodel Personals.