[Podcast] House Set To Pass Smaller Health Care Bills
I can see that I’ve turned into a bit of a homebody. A week in the Twin Cities and I’m pretty pooped … which is why everything is going out late this week.
Who would have thought that a week away from home would cause this much exhaustion?
So, health care reform is back. This week, the [...]
[Podcast] Economy Taking Toll on Microlenders and Borrowers
I first got wind of the difficulties microlenders are having because of crappy-economy-related-borrower-defaults thanks to an email I got for an individual who shall, for the moment, remain nameless. He was the one who came up with the “microTARP” term and idea but I liked it so I used it.
It’s pretty typical of the questions [...]
First thing to do is lay the foundation
(Photo by Particlem, via Flickr)
Economic infrastructure. Do you know what it is?
We don’t spend very much time talking about it, although there are communities around the web that devote their entire intellectual capital to looking at it and figuring it out — largely because building economic infrastructures needs to be done as a first step [...]



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