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Daily Archives: January 26th, 2009

Bipartisanship

I just finished watching Keith Olbermann and the beginning of Rachel Maddow’s show. Both of them bemoaned Obama’s push for “bi-partisanship” on the stimulus package, and both they and their guests feel the Democrats are being played by the Republicans. That may all turn out to be true, but let me propose an alternative theory. […]

The next act

Here we go again. Pro Publica reports that the next financial meltdown is coming to a community bank near you, particularly if you live in an area that has seen a lot of development in the past few years. …small banks are suffering from a wave of defaults on construction and development loans that could […]