Archive for 'Corruption' Category
Mortgage Meltdown: Economics 101 Theoretically economics should be a separate discipline from politics. It is referred in textbooks as the study of scarcity and allocation of resources. It ought to be an “assist” in developing national, regional and local policies that lead to better lives of citizens. In fact, however, it is merely an arm […]
Our division of opinion on the Wars in Iraq, Afganistan and secret wars being conducted by our government has become so confused, with the assistance of an extremely lazy and under-resourced media, that real discourse leading to compromise and resolution of the issues has become our greatest challenge. In other words, we are not talking […]
I’ve kept quiet about this too long. I guess I thought that whoever was doing it would stop out of fear of discovery. I no longer believe that. In my opinion a Republican will be elected in the next Presidential election. Actually that is not true. A more explicitly true statement would be that a […]
Hold everything!!: Second Bubble on the Way!!!???? Interest rates dropping, Fed lowering its rates, and incoming capital from China like it was water. We now see the strategy to prevent the world from marking the Bush administration down as the most foolish, stupidest in history. The plan is to create a second bubble. They will […]
A Few Tears and the Polls Were All Wrong Maybe she was being tactical and maybe it was real. Maybe it was both. It doesn’t really matter. The results in New Hampshire underscore a serious flaw in the delivery of information to the American public and an even more serious flaw in the way we […]
Strategies for Living in a Failing Economy: Break the Bond of Mortgage and Note While You Deal with Foreclosure and Eviction: Buy time and Make Money Time for States and People to Act Now — Don’t Wait for Federal Government Even while the Bush administration and bell ringers on Wall Street attempt to maintain the […]
We received the following plea for help. I have changed the name to protect privacy. But both the plea and the answer are applicable to many people, which is why we are publishing the Garfield Handbooks. I will shortly publish a way for you to down load the books and forms and purchase the book […]
Unfair Competition by Large Banks Created the Infrastructure for this Mess A few people have asked: Why not do a story on the alternative to the cash-dispensing ATM? After considering the research, and seeing a connection with the mortgage meltdown crisis because this situation is the single greatest marketing tool used by large financial institutions […]
Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. Very good thinking going on out there. The Garfield Handbooks will be completely ready to start downloading in about 3 weeks. I’ll keep you advised. We will be taking PayPal, Visa and MasterCard. Possibly American Express and Discover as well. We are presented with two issues that are […]
“Fund Frozen, Florida Towns Feel the Pinch” That’s the title of an article in today’s NY Times, excerpted below. What everyone needs to realize is that early and reliable calculations of damage from the credit crisis caused by the mortgage meltdown are now over $45 trillion (yes with a “T”) just domestically in the United […]


