My most recent posts were months and months ago. In them I explained that I have been busy meeting my ordinary obligations, teaching, commuting, and especially trying to catch-up on scholarly publishing. I never will be completely ahead of the game, but I have managed to receive acceptance letters for four peer reviewed scholarly journal [...]
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The rest of us, along with our children, and grandchildren, will pay, and pay, and pay.
This classified ad in the Smoky Mountain News (September 23-29, 2009, Vol, 11, Issue 17) caught my eye this morning (I have removed the phone number):
Let’s see, if a “similar lot” was $70k “not more than 9 months ago,” but now worth $24,900 (assuming enough similarity to be considered a comparable in a real estate [...]
Chase to spend $30,000,000 to launch new Sapphire Credit Card targeting Wealthy!
Eighteen months in the making, Chase is launching a new Sapphire credit card aimed at the wealthy. Apparently, Chase has squeezed enough cash out of the 1,250,000 non-wealthy customers who are victims of the “no opt out, unilateral, 150% increase in payment requirement or double your interest rate for one year” change [...]


