This economic metaphor comes equipped with a band of merry menLast Week we urged anti-social investors -- the opposite of do-gooder "social investors" who shun tobacco, blood diamonds, and the like -- to load up on a pending "vampire bond" coming out of Half Moon Bay, 30 miles southwest of San Francisco.The bonds were designed to pay off an apparently bloodsucking Woodside land speculator who'd purchased a piece of property out of town, then went to court because of pre-existing environmental co
Red Herring Editor Tony Perkins is a self-described maverick, a stylish fast-talker with a knack for making friends and influencing people in the high-tech world. Not bad traits for a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, but are they what it takes to publish a "m
So-called social investing -- where soft-edged sharpies stay out of tobacco, blood diamonds, and the like -- has come under fire for producing substandard returns. Such critiques of do-well-by-doing-good investment-picking carry the implicit moral that one might do better by doing bad.
Into the the promising field of anti-social investment offerings steps the city of Half Moon Bay, a municipality 30 miles south of here. The city's manager recently told the publication Bond Buyer that it has obt
'Candygram!' ​Like many San Franciscans last month, I couldn't help but notice the odd story emanating from the bucolic bedroom communities of Woodside and Portola Valley. On July 16, a giant, basketball player-sized man accused of nude doorbell ditching led sheriff's deputies on a dangerous, destructive high-speed vehicle chase right out of CHiPs, then fled on foot through someone's home (right out of Raising Arizona) and was finally felled with both a taser- and bean-bag rifle-blast.Peter Al
