This morning’s New York Times has a story about the “$250 billion war chest” amassed to finance a “tidal wave of infrastructure projects in the United States and overseas.” Big banks and funds want to buy your roads, bridges and airports, America—and since Congress won’t put on its big-boy pants and pay for infrastructure improvements, [...]
Journalists who write about the housing meltdown occasionally get taken to task for not laying enough blame at the feet of the individual homeowners who were signing up for mortgages they should have known they couldn’t afford. I, myself, have been accused of this. So in the interest of blaming homeowners their fair share, let [...]
