Carl Bloice

According to Best, in Brooklyn alone, there are about 15,000 foreclosure cases in the courts or arbitration. “These are tough times and we see it in the cases for foreclosures, unpaid debt and landlords who have not been paid the rents due to them and the tenants who are fighting evictions,” said a court official…

David Brooks wants to rewrite the nation’s social contract. Not only that, the New York Times columnist and PBS personality wants the idea enshrined in a new “unwritten austerity constitution” that aims to get “state and federal budgets under control” a process that “will take decades” to complete and the foundation of which “has to…

In a good novel, writes blogger Randy Mayeux, “we can find quotes that speak to the issues of the age.” He’s referring to the much acclaimed “The Girl with the Dragoon Tattoo” and its relevance to the state of financial journalism in real life today. “Read it, and think about the financial reporting (and, really,…

“Davos delegates do not seem to know how to react to events in Egypt,” Gideon Rachman, the Financial Times’ chief foreign affairs columnist, wrote last week. “The young people demonstrating on the streets of Cairo do not speak with the kind of voices that are represented at the forum.” You can say that again. The…

Shortly after the start of the New Year, Reuters reported that “Millions of Pakistanis are growing frustrated at widespread corruption, power cuts, poverty and rising inflation – problems that risk pushing more young men to join militants groups in the South Asian country of 170 million.” In that atmosphere, the country’s government decided last year,…

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Smarting from the complaints within his own party about the tax deal he and the Republican leadership had hatched, an increasingly defensive President Obama said,” this is the public option debate all over again.” Then, he claimed, that while he was able to pass a meaningful reform, progressives had instead viewed it as “weakness and…

It was just a routine call to set up the logistics for weekend football watching and I was somewhat stunned by the response I got from my friend when I asked him how he was. “I am angry,” he said. About what? “Those (explicative) are not going to extend unemployment insurance.” I recalled that I…