Look at the clusters, and then think about median incomes for the most densely affected areas. Predatory lending? No question. Makes me ill.
This together with the Economist’s observation… we’ve got the makings of a class war! Giddyup!
“I think we will look back in 10 years’ time and say we should not have done this but we did because we forgot the lessons of the past, and that that which is true in the 1930’s is true in 2010” Oops.
Nice to have saved on the console for future viewing.
Oh yeah. She’s clearly against pork spending…
Here’s hoping not…
Circuit City is dead. RIP to the City.
But that said, while him being to busy to drop everything and feed Brown supper seems plausible, the mentions of fatigue, exasperation, and a general sense of being overwhelmed are troubling. Then again, isn’t that part of any new job? Not to mention taking said job during the escalation of the worst economic crisis the modern world has ever seen?
Just for giggles, I’d love to see how bizarro-Earth 3-term Bush would be handling any of this…
Jon Stewart shows us how balding white men everywhere don’t know WHAT THE FUCK they’re talking about. The whole financial sector appears to be staffed with idiots. This debacle makes tragic, depressing sense now.
Wall Street Fighter. Natch.
The credit crisis, explained wonderfully, and presented using exquisite motion graphics.