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(7 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 17, 2008 Political profiting from disaster capitalism: Campaign 08
Today's political candidates are trying to out do each other on how tough they would get on the financial industry, but the fact remains: anything "to be done" is merely closing the barn door after the fat cats have made out like bandits.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, September 8, 2008 Heating, eating or sleeping: pick one
This is the beginning of an American fiscal revolution. Life as our parents knew it may well be beyond future generations for some time to come. Simply put, what was once a burgeoning real estate market, with couples purchasing "McMansions" and single men and women investing in condos and luxury living may well be fiction for future generations.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 15, 2008 Signed, sealed and delivered: the enemy within is alive and well
In a time, which may well be one of the pivotal epochs in human history, we are sitting on our collective behinds, applauding Nero as he fiddles the nation into destruction.
SHARE Sunday, February 17, 2008 For all of the talk, we know nothing of true 'free markets'-and what we know should be a caution
Now we are facing a historic transfer of wealth, as millions of property owners face foreclosure, eviction and possible homelessness. Many attribute the current mortgage crisis to deregulation, criminal conspiracy and a massive lack of financial literacy among the nation's homebuyers
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, January 25, 2008 Language obsession riles writers and fuels social engineering
Today, thousands of languages are no longer part of living memory. Many ethnic groups, most notably several Native American tribes, are seeing the last living native speakers of hundreds of languages slowly die out, taking their rich linguistic heritages to the grave with them.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 1, 2008 2008--The Year They Killed the Golden Goose
The cost of the war, the risky derivative-based housing investments, and the weaker dollar are creating a perfect storm of financial catastrophe here and abroad. We have been playing Russian roulette with the economy and the bullet's now in the chamber. The piper will have his due-who's going to pay him, and in what currency?
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 29, 2007 What's Race Got to do with It?
Across the board, from auto loans to mortgages and credit card interest rates, black consumers, along with Hispanic borrowers often are targeted for expensive, high risk loans, lesser medical care and consumer credit fraud.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, December 17, 2007 Foreclosure, fraud and third world living-In the United States
All over the country, "Home, Sweet Home" isn't sweet any more. Through no fault of their own, thousands of people who live in apartments that are being foreclosed on, are left out in the cold. Although many have paid timely rents, owners, property managers and others have managed to keep from paying the mortgage on their property, sending apartments around the nation into foreclosure.