nytimes.com - 1/31/2009
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Getting between a broker and his bonus is like getting between a schnauzer and his lunch bowl. He may not bite you, but you are going to smell his breath. “People come here because they want to work hard and get paid a lot for working hard,” one investment banker said Friday as he wended his ...
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Buying A Home In The Midst Of The Bush Depression-- And The Squatting Option
DownWithTyranny! —
... and these days of frozen credit the dream of home ownership is further away than ever-- even as home prices drop down to more affordable levels. Banks just will not lend-- even to the most qualified buyers with steady, tenured jobs. The Bush Regime shoveled $300 billion-- no strings, no adult supervision, no accountability-- at the banksters and what happened was predictable: some of it went to scooping up other, more distressed banks and related businesses and some of it was simply stolen (in the form of self-awarded "bonuses" for... jobs well done? Rudy Giuliani may think ...
Buying a Home in the Midst of the Bush Depression — and Marcy Kaptur’s Squatting Option
Firedoglake —
My friend is a school teacher in Compton. He makes around $55,000 a year, give or take. It's never been enough to buy a home in L.A. and these days of frozen credit the dream of home ownership is further away than ever--even as home prices drop down to more affordable levels. Banks just will not ...
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