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Israel’s Housing Prices Spike
Why does real estate increase in price when Jews move into a neighborhood? Israel has ridden out the great recession better than almost any Western country. The Los Angeles Times reports: The surge is an unexpected side effect of the … Continue reading
Posted in Israel
Tagged bank of israel, benchmark interest rate, financial meltdown, lebanon war, palestinian uprising, unexpected side effect
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Maybe The Bailout Worked?
I want to grind my teeth every time I think about the U.S. government bailing out banks, but this Washington Post article says the thing has worked: Sure, you can question how the money was used — many of us … Continue reading
Posted in Economics
Tagged credit default swaps, fannie mae, fannie mae and freddie mac, financial meltdown, lehman brothers, orderly wind
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Inside The Elie Wiesel Foundation
From the Times of London Dec. 20, 2008: It takes an extraordinarily heartless conman to swindle a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and Nobel Peace Prize winner out of all his charitable funds. Yet that is exactly what Bernard “Bernie” … Continue reading
Posted in Bernard Madoff, Charity, Elie Wiesel
Tagged elie weisel, Elie Wiesel, elie wiesel foundation, elie wiesel foundation for humanity, financial meltdown, howard sobel, internal revenue code, latham and watkins, madoff, nine times, nobel peace prize, nobel peace prize winner, peace prize winner, us taxpayer
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