New Orleans There’s a t-shirt coming: global warming gonna get your mamma! The spate of disasters from Japan to Joplin, Birmingham, Alabama to Springfield, Mass brings all the horror home again. Living in New Orleans and still in recovery from Katrina and weaker and wiser from the experience, I keep an eye on these things, …
Tag: Foreclosure
Florida: Detroit with Palm Trees
West Palm Beach The boosterish headline in the West Palm Beach paper was curious and somewhat contradictory. They were trumpeting the fact that the “values” of houses were “bargains” and should be swiftly picked up because the comparable available prices in this normally high flying market had not existed for 15 years or more. Not …
Osama Down, Obama, How about Wall Street Criminals Now?
Baton Rouge Years into the Great Recession, after the Big Bailout, and one thing after another, there is still no relief on foreclosures, a steady attack on the still shaky, less than adequate Dodd-Frank act, lawsuits accusing most of the bailed out banks of Madoff mischief, big bank profits, and seemingly no one with their …