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December 13, 2007

A Massive Bank Fraud that Calls for Jail Terms

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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December 09, 2007

Thanks and Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You

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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December 07, 2007

ING Bank Totally Screws NetBank Customers in Takeover

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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December 05, 2007

Drawn and Quartered--Destroying American Business, Quarter by Quarter

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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December 02, 2007

A Guest Column

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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