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Month in Review: March 2008

1 May, 2008 (09:31) | Admin, Month in review | No comments

[Previous Months In Review available here: Feb 08 Jan 08]

[A complete set of 2007 Month In Reviews available here:  Dec 07, Nov 07, Oct 07, Sep 07, Aug 07, Jul 07, Jun 07, May 07,  Apr 07, Mar 07, Feb 07, Jan 07.]
 

Besuboru opens in Japan, and Planet Manny lands in Tokyo
 
In my copious […]

Searching for affordable housing history: a call for ideas

4 April, 2008 (09:22) | Admin, History, Readers | No comments

I’m asking for your help.

 
It’s already too late for that
 
On my company’s conference room wall is an 1855 map of old Boston,
 

 
given to me twenty years ago when I left my old firm (and eventually started Recap), and on the peninsula then known as Dorchester Heights, and now known as South Boston, in delicate […]

Month in Review: January 2008

18 February, 2008 (10:17) | Admin, Month in review | No comments

[A complete set of 2007 Month In Reviews available here:  Dec 07, Nov 07, Oct 07, Sep 07, Aug 07, Jul 07, Jun 07, May 07,  Apr 07, Mar 07, Feb 07, Jan 07.]

 
A New Year is a time of resolution and initiatives, and I began January with Predictions for 2008, among which were these […]

Month in Review: December 2007

14 January, 2008 (10:30) | Admin, Month in review | No comments

[Previous months in review available here: Nov 07, Oct 07, Sep 07, Aug 07, Jul 07, Jun 07, May 07,  Apr 07, Mar 07, Feb 07, Jan 07.] 
Early in December, the mortgage industry banded together to offer a broad plan for rate reset amnesty options, available to a particular subclass of borrowers that I described […]

For sale, one cracked crystal ball

27 December, 2007 (13:22) | Admin, US News | No comments

It’s easy to be a guru, someone once observed.  Just make lots of outlandish predictions, then publicize only the ones you got right. 
 

I foresee that I will claim my predictions were right all along!
 
But on the internet, everyone knows what you said [even if no one cares! – Ed.], so, for better or worse, […]