My Mind on Mortgages

I forgot to post this back in November when I originally wrote and sent this out to my customers.  In this issue….. …I wrote a piece entitled ‘My Case for Home Ownership’ in which I report on real estate affordability in the Portland-Metro region. …I wrote a piece about the neuroeconomics and why our emotions [...]

The latest “My Mind on Mortgages” newsletter should be hitting mail slots early next week.  HERE IS A LINK if you want to download a copy now.  In this issue…… *I explain “My Why, How, and What” *I also offer my clients a new free financial resource @ www.myfinancialindependencecoach.com/eswanson If you’d like to get added [...]

A local creative branding company called Sockeye Creative put together the following video of Portland.  It captures a lot of the highlights!

I’ve blogged a few times in the previous months about my recent fascination with the subject of “neuroeconomics”.  This is a field of study that looks at the role a person’s pschye, emotions, and/or subjective-self plays in making economic decisions.  I’m fascinated by this subject because of the gap between the body of fiscal knowledge [...]

My sister & brother-in-law gave me a subscription to Lapham’s Quarterly for my birthday last year.  If you’re not familiar with this quarterly periodical it is literary magazine founded by former Harper’s editor Lewis Lapham.  Each issue he picks a theme and then searches historical & contemporary literature for inclusion in the issue.  It’s a [...]

I’ve elected to do my book reviews a little differently.  In the past I’ve waited until I completed a book before I recorded thoughts and excerpts that I found interesting.  The problem with this approach is that it is very time consuming because I save all the work for the end.  Therefore, from now on [...]

I’ve been meaning to do a quick book review post on “The Big Short” for the past few months but these posts are kind of time consuming.  A couple weeks ago NPR’s Planet Money team did a ‘Deep Read’ interview with the author Michael Lewis.  If you’re not familiar with Lewis he is an author [...]

Maybe you caught the trailer to the new comedy show called Portlandia at THIS POST.  Now NPR is getting in on the action with THIS STORY about the number of “20-something’s” that migrate to Portland.  Here are a couple excerpt’s from the story: You can get everything from pad thai to a fried pie in [...]

OK, sorry for this seemingly unrelated post but I read THIS ARTICLE in this week’s Economist Magazine and had to share.  It is a story about some fascinating technology that allows users to print three dimensionally using materials.  For example, apparently this viola which appears on the cover of this week’s edition was manufactured using [...]

After creating her first spreadsheet over the weekend Addie (our 8-month old daughter) has begun to pick up my favorite magazine, The Economist.  Here is a picture of her reaching by her children books & toys and going  for the magazine.  As well there is a picture of her reading playing with it.  Can you [...]