NYT:
Google Maps hasn’t quite heard of Mountain House:
Ths sponsored link homegain.com links to findmeaforeclosure.com…
…which has the same registrant as tracyrealestate.com:
(Both sites’ “Community” links are blank.)
Repeat ad nauseam nationwide.
The NYT offers a curious meditation on the historical parallels between the collapse of the USSR (when “shock therapy” was the order of the day) and the US’s current difficulties:
Just in time:
“The time of domination by one economy and one currency has been consigned to the past once and for all,” Medvedev said during a [...]
…and now my dreams have come true!”
The NYT covers the hype about a new digital device, a letter-size grayscale screen, but omits key words such as “hard” or ”stiff” in lieu of the more flexible term “flexible.” Apparently unaware that the hardcopy NYT has been printed in color for over a decade (since 16 Oct [...]
Surprisingly clear:
In earlier years, actually being repaid by borrowers was crucial to lenders. Now, because so much consumer debt is packaged into securities and sold to investors, repayment of the loans takes on less importance to those lenders than the fees and charges generated when loans are made.
If the NYT and its ilk did actual [...]
Q: What do you call your stockbroker?
A: Waiter!
NYT, “Rich, but Rejected,” on the plight of “investment bankers and others on Wall Street [who] have gone from being Manhattan’s most aggressive apartment buyers to real estate pariahs.” So be it; but if that’s the journalistic standard, how would it describe the city’s rapidly growing ranks of [...]