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Silver Lining on Home Equity Loans

New Orleans In some ways we all eventually come to grips with the fact that we are a “product of our raising,” as the expression down here goes and in the case of personal real estate and personal debts, I was my father’s son:  conservative!  When he retired after 38 years with an oil company, [...]

Wrong Reasons, Right Move

Helena Coming back on the grid for a day, you go through your email, answer the urgent calls, see what’s tweeting, hit the Facebook, and scan through the headlines in the New York Times and other papers to see what’s up.  The last is the least rewarding task sometimes.

An irresistible headline jumps up on [...]

Home Care Labor Crisis in USA & Korea

New Orleans Meeting with three visitors and friends from Korea, Yungik Jeong, Young Mi Choi, and Hwang Inhul, who work with PSAU, an organization of the unemployed and irregular workers, as informal and unprotected workers are now known there, the conversation quickly came to plight of home health care workers or domestic workers as they [...]

Weird Times on Tax Exemptions for Israeli Settlements

New Orleans        I was in Mexico City reading the Times on-line and, frankly, didn’t trust what I was reading completely until I could have the paper in my hot hands, but it’s still a strange and weird article printed on 7/6/10 entitled:  “U.S. Gives Tax Breaks for Donations to Aid Settlements in the West [...]

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