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 than a bridge, decking with temporary structures or …
Author: wade
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 …
Recession Way Not Over: Krugman
New Orleans To be clear Paul Krugman, the Princeton-based, Nobel prize winning, New York Times writing columnist has a dog in this race: he argued that the stimulus package to pull out of the recession needed to be way bigger from the get-go. But, looking past the “I told you so,” he is dead on …