For the mortgage market, it’s “everybody out of the pool” – but if you live in Florida or California and you skate, the suburbs are now your oyster. Erin Lamos sends me this link on how empty houses and empty pools make for a skateboarders’ paradise: Some skateboarders use realty tracking sites like realquest.com and [...]
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Greenspan: More Fail, In Tsunami Form
October 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · greenspan
OMG HOW MUCH FAIL CAN ONE DAY POSSIBLY HAVE Greenspan today came out and admitted that the free markets’ failure to self-regulate makes him a sad panda, and atop that, there is a “tsunami” upon us (thx to Caroline B and to Amy who both called iterations of this to my attention). Quoting BBCNews: Former [...]
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Greenspan Is Coming To The Hill
October 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · greenspan
More hearings on Capitol Hill! Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve for 18 1/2 years, was to be the star witness Thursday before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. He faces questions about actions the government took or didn’t take that might have contributed to the boom in subprime mortgages and the [...]
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Coffee, Tea or Greenie?
May 5th, 2008 · No Comments · greenspan
Reuters reports one of the items in an auction to benefit the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial is a tea with Alan Greenspan and his wife Andrea Mitchell. It isn’t final til May 7, but the current bid is $11,000. VIP tickets to Mad Money and a phone chat with Suze Orman are among the other [...]
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Greenspan: US in “awfully pale recession”
May 5th, 2008 · No Comments · greenspan
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The United States has fallen into an “awfully pale recession” and may remain stagnant for the rest of the year, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan was quoted on Monday saying. “We’re in a recession,” Bloomberg news agency reported Greenspan had said in a television interview. “But this is an awfully [...]
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