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Finally something that we can all get behind: Don’t pay your bills. It’s not my idea, although it has appeal. It’s the Fed’s and it’s the cornerstone of the new Homeownership Preservation Policy. To qualify for aid, the homeowner must be at least 60 days past due on his or her mortgage payments. (This program [...]
All of this stimulus talk chafes me the wrong way, given that we don’t have $815 billion lying around to spread around the economy, we’re going to have to borrow it. I figure at some point, someone is going to call our tab, and that can’t mean anything good for the average consumer here in [...]
by Constantine von HoffmanNovember 6, 2008
Economy
A guest post from Constantine von Hoffman, veteran business journalist and author of the blog CollateralDamage.biz, a humorous look at marketing, business and his dog.
Popular opinion has it that Barack Obama won because he took some red states away from John McCain. Nonsense. Obama won all the red states. And McCain won all the black [...]