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Daily Archives: March 24th, 2008

Overreacting

Things are getting a bit fevered out there: You know, it strikes me that the best way to really restore sanity and a measure of stability to the mortgage industry is to ensure that the people most harmed by predatory lending practices, who were on the receiving end of extraordinary dubious financial advice which has, […]

In which I beat several dead horses

From this Morning’s Times: “The news business is something worse than horrible. If that’s the future, we don’t have much of a future,” Sam Zell, who bought the Tribune Company last year, said recently in The Baltimore Sun. The Tribune Company, and therefore Sam Zell, owns the Hartford Courant. Years ago I heard a story […]