HOA's could become latest victim of housing slump
Submitted by Admin on Wed, 08/06/2008 - 7:34pm. Living The HOA WayJimmy Justice - Traffic Cop Makes illegal U-Turn
Submitted by Admin on Wed, 08/06/2008 - 6:55am. Banana Republic Watch
NY Vigilante Keeps Tabs On Law-Breaking Cops
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Eagles - Busy Being Fabulous
Submitted by Admin on Wed, 08/06/2008 - 6:53am. GeneralHomeowner Accuses HOA Of Wasting Money
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 7:46pm. Living The HOA WayTrading Places - The demographic inversion of the American city.
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 4:25am. General
Will Chicago, the city of slaughterhouses and skyscrapers, soon look like haute bourgeois nineteenth-century Vienna?
Alan Ehrenhalt, The New Republic
Thirty years ago, the mayor of Chicago was unseated by a snowstorm. A blizzard in January of 1979 dumped some 20 inches on the ground, causing, among other problems, a curtailment of transit service. The few available trains coming downtown from the northwest side filled up with middle-class white riders
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Homeowner's Plant Box Battle Could Reach Courts
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 1:25am. Living The HOA WayMillennium Money "a provocative film for our times . . ."
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 08/04/2008 - 2:23am. EconomyThe World's Grandest Ponzi Scheme Unravels
Submitted by Admin on Sun, 08/03/2008 - 10:28pm. Economy![]()
Mike Morgan, J.D., CRS, GRI
Pathetic Piping Puppets - When I see some of today's financial "experts" telling us why there was a housing meltdown and why there was a mortgage crisis and why we now see the financial system crumbling . . . I find myself yelling at the TV, eventually launching the clicker at the screen. It's an expensive habit, but I don't yell as much at the guys like Mozilla, Paulson, Greenspan, Schwartz or any of the other guys that ran the Ponzi scheme. No, those guys were bad, but not nearly as bad as the ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN and CNBC financial experts who had the ability to do something,
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The Next Big Bail Out, State, Local and Private Pensions
Submitted by Admin on Sat, 08/02/2008 - 3:01am. Economy![]()
Michael Hudson
The great economic fight of our epoch is being waged by the FIRE sector - Finance, Insurance and Real Estate - against the industrial economy and consumers. Its objective is to maximize property prices and the volume of debt relative to what labor and industry are able to earn.
Rising debts and real estate prices go together, because asset prices depend on how much banks will lend.
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Oil? Ah, let Russia have it
Submitted by Admin on Thu, 07/31/2008 - 7:28am. Political![]()
State Department gives away 125,000 square miles of Alaskan ocean floor
Even if Congress follows President Bush's lead in opening off-shore oil exploration, there exist over 125,000 square miles of sea bottom that won't be explored, because the State Department – amid controversy and against the will of Alaskans – has surrendered the land to Russia.
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