Archive for April, 2009

More money for first time house buyers

From the Guardian Budget 2009: More cash for first-time buyers’ cut-price mortgages:
More first-time buyers will be helped on to the property ladder by the government-backed shared ownership scheme HomeBuy Direct, after the chancellor said he was allocating it an extra £80m.
They must mean property-snake, surely? It’s clear that the UK government has moral qualms with [...]

The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One - William K Black

William K Black investigated the Savings and Loans scandal in the 1980s and accused senators of committing fraud. Now he’s back and investigating the fraud that has happened against the American people over the past 10 years.
Watch Bill Moyers’ interview with William K Black
Here is the transcript of the interview:
April 3, 2009
BILL MOYERS: Welcome [...]