more than housing

This just in from Blown Mortgage.[1]
I wrote a year ago about the site, Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter, being sued by a mortgage company for damages allegedly tied to the company’s listing on the site’s imploded lender list. The claims were fanciful, with the lender claiming that their bank accounts had been drained by institutional warehouse […]

Calculated Risk has the link to this NYT story.[1]
The blogger Tanta, an influential voice on the mortgage collapse, died Sunday morning in Columbus, Ohio.
Tanta, who wrote for Calculated Risk, a finance and economics blog, was a pseudonym for Doris Dungey, 47, who until recently had lived in Upper Marlboro, Md. The cause of death was […]

"Given a story like this, the media will always try to depict it as the apocalypse on roller blades, but the general public didn’t buy it." - about 7/7 2005
This tough old warrior is usually good for some sense.  Another must-read.[1]
[1]: "Terrorists are marginal; keep them that way", by Gwynne Dyer, Georgia Straight, November 28, […]

Napoleon was not French.  Stalin was not Russian.  Hitler was not German.  Churchill was not English.
This could get interesting.
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It’s election day, and it’s time to get out and vote.  I loved the comments from this "Disgruntled Republican" though, on why the uninformed should sit today out:
You should not let anyone shame you into voting. You should not vote unless you are real informed and confident in your decision. It is unpatriotic to […]

Doom friend OSO and I belong to similar religious denominations, although he characterizes himself an evangelical, and I see myself as a sort of liberal (within the fold this is a fraught distinction, but would be pretty hard to explain to most Doomers).
Anyway, a recent Wall Street spirituality moment has evidently weirded both of us […]

So many auctions in the country:
that mad roll of syllables blowing in
from all directions, the heart’s true music
plaintive and crude, …
 
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Subprime Blues
Billybob Stewart
 
 
A couple years ago I went to buy a home
I called up on an ad on the telephone
The Realtor told me now is the right time to buy
She said "Owning a home is […]

Full marks to Mrs. M for digging this amazing story [1] out of page C4 of our local paper.
A Dartmouth [Nova Scotia] real estate agent says Ottawa is forcing agents to play Big Brother by requiring them to get and store personal information about their clients.
"It’s a privacy issue more than anything. It has been […]

Americans please take note. There is an emerging continental trend towards the social engineering of the democratic franchise, and it may well be coming to a polling station near you.
Tower Road used to run from the gates of Point Pleasant Park at the southern tip of Halifax to the gates of the Public Gardens […]

Well poor Igor was enjoying a leisurely breakfast of spam and catching up with his Doomish reading on the adventures of the US Debt Clock, FooFA’s capital levels, layering, KRIS, SLAPP, and the sovereign debt adventures of Ukraine, Pakistan and Iceland, when his good friends from Implode-O-Meter dropped by with an urgent press release.
This isn’t […]