When a House Is Not a Home:The Homeownership Myth
Geithner has produced a “cash for trash” scheme to buy “toxic” securities from mortgage bankers who are bulldozing foreclosures.
Geithner has produced a “cash for trash” scheme to buy “toxic” securities from mortgage bankers who are bulldozing foreclosures.
For years politician have promised affordable housing. When the market delivers it, the politicians act like it’s the bubonic plaque!
Why isn’t Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman the Secretary of the Treasury? More and more people are starting to ask that question. Jonathan Mann, the creator of Rock Cookie Bottom, writes a song every single day; last week he wrote this catchy and moving plea to NY Times columnist Krugman to come to the aid of our nation’s scorched and pillaged economy .
Barack Obama changed his stance this weekend on whether or not we should open new areas to drill for oil offshore. He now says that we should allow for some more drilling to occur if this drilling is part of a larger package of legislation that would move the United States’ energy needs toward a cleaner, greener, and more self-sufficient future.
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