New Orleans The AARP has issued an invaluable and depressing study meticulously collected from mortgage loan data in the available years since the housing crisis went full blown in 2007. The information seems radically different from the spinning popular mythology and the profile of the foreclosure victims among the chattering classes (including British bank regulator …
Month: July 2012
Union Conundrum: Short Term Needs versus Long Term Success
New Orleans Eduardo Porter’s “Economic Scene” column in the New York Times is fast becoming a favorite read for me. He actually seems to care about people, including working and low income people. Probably not long for this world at the paper, but worth showing some love. In today’s column he looked at the deterioration …
Lifestyle: Small Footprint Sustainability
New Orleans Ok, you’re right. This is not a normal place to look for lifestyle tips. And, you’re thinking, hey, I was just in California, this will be some hippy-dippy baloney. Well, have it your way, but this was no hippy strategy but a small footprint sustainability system for living well on very limited income, …