The Profit Motive August 30
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Did Credit Market Policies Cause the Housing Bubble?
An interesting discussion of the causes of the excessive residential price appreciation during the boom years. GlaeserGFCPaper2010 Source: Did Credit Market Policies Cause the Housing Bubble? May 2010 By Edward L. Glaeser (Harvard University) , Joshua Gottlieb (Harvard University), and Joseph Gyourko (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) And The Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston and [...]
Friend Needs Work
Jim’s a great guy with tons of experience, the economy bad luck and misfortune finds him in difficult times. If you could use his services give him a call. Caleb Lawrence After a serious brain injury from a hit and run bicycle accident, no insurance and then losing all of his consulting gig with Merrill [...]
No One Is to Blame for Anything
Frank Rich hits the nail on the head regarding accountability and being responsible for ones actions. As the parade of executives, regulators and interested parties to this fiasco continue claim that they didn’t know and that nobody saw it coming. BS! Anybody who was reasonably intelligent and paying attention could see this coming, I warned [...]
Frank Portnoy provides a great lesson in modern and historical finance!
Our tax Dollars go down the rat hole to prop up failed institutions that engage in creative accounting rendering the whole idea of transparency laughable. 2-Years after the meltdown we still don’t have real financial reform and for the banks its business as usual. The collusion between Wall Street and Washington DC must end or [...]

















