Categories

Moving the Money: Kartina Plus Five

Vanessa's picture in the Times Picayune by David Grunfeld

New Orleans    These things all take time.

I finally am bothering friends and family about how to make our fishing camp on the bayou abutting the Big Branch National Wildlife Refuge a mile up from Lake Ponchartrain useable again without rebuilding. A pontoon and pulley operation rather [...]

Soft Case for Home Ownership: Forced Savings/Low Interest Rates

New Orleans        Dueling columns in the Times smashed the drunken or doped spin of the Realtors Association trying to claim that the housing market was “back” and in the “Your Money” section made a soft and shrugging case for home ownership:
“Indeed, many people who are buying at the moment are locking in mortgage rates [...]

Homes as Assets and Wealth

New Orleans The New York Times ran the article on the front page announcing that the “era” is over when a family in the United States could reliably expect their personal residences to appreciate and create citizen wealth. Housing Fades as a Means to Build Wealth, Analysts Say was headline on the email version.  This [...]

Second Circuit Tries Hoisting ACORN on Its Own Petard

Laramie I may be stuck in Laramie, but I adapt and make the best of it, which is what organizers do by nature and training.  I spent a couple of hours at Coal Creek Coffee downtown in no small part because generally coffee in Wyoming sucks, despite the greatness of the state, and because [...]

Get Adobe Flash playerPlugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes