Not a Mortgage Meltdown, Not a Sub-Prime Crisis
‘Tis the season to be jolly, but no one said it was a time to bail out criminals who properly belong in jail.
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Local Iraqi interpreters working with either the State Department,
Military or private organizations in Iraq have a limited shelf-life.
Their ‘use before’ date has never been very long because they have to live among the ordinary population, while keeping their jobs hidden.
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A cautionary tale on December 7, 2007 (Pearl Harbor Day)
The White Horse that is ING Bank, galloping valiantly in to save
what’s left of the sub-prime-mortgage-defunct NetBank, has mud all over
it.
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We are not so much a fault-finding nation as we are a fault-requiring one. Somebody has to take the heat. In the matter of where our manufacturing base has gone and why, I have a nominee.
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The following is by Charlotte McGuinn Freeman, who writes the LivingSmall blog from Livingston, Montana; she is the author of the novel Place Last Seen (read the first chapter).
Alice Waters finally responded to the questions I raised here
about her involvement with the Ameya Preserve. Of course, she didn’t
respond to me or to Ethicurean, but to the Wall Street Journal.
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