Showing posts with label consumer debt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label consumer debt. Show all posts

The Booming Economy

Gene Lyons looks at the high cost of debt, likening it to sharecropping, or, as I'd call it, indentured servitude.

The Booming Economy

While many banks prospered, more people were left deeper in debt.

A related piece about the Fannie and Freddie bailout is here.
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Crater Lake National Park Photos 1

 Here are a few pictures I took at Crater Lake National Park in southern Oregon today, including a couple of them from the historic lodge: