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Katherine M. Porter, a bankruptcy expert at the University of Iowa and the University of California, Berkeley's Boalt Hall Law School, says people typically "seriously struggle" with their debt for two years before turning to bankruptcy...
Gourmet food trucks are democratizing the local- and slow-food trends that started with restaurateur Alice Waters in Berkeley, Calif., and were spread by the Food Network. Although the goal of these trucks is to be quick, convenient and cheap, they are decidedly anti--fast food. They're about dispensing Alice Waters food in a McDonald's manner...
...Eisman knew that calamity would eventually come. The hedge-fund manager bet big against the subprime-mortgage market and won. So did Mike Burry, a social recluse who began investing at night during his medical residency. Jamie Mai and Charlie Ledley, two 30-somethings who started trading in a Berkeley garage, "assumed that there was some grownup in charge of the financial system." There wasn't. In The Big Short, Michael Lewis, who chronicled an earlier era of Wall Street excess in 1989's Liar's Poker, tells the story of investors who asked questions that no one else would...
...night in 1995, I was standing in a bookstore in Berkeley, Calif., when a Moore image rooted me to the floor--and launched a book. I eventually searched out the shooter, and we became friends. He was an unassuming man with a softly charged voice, who probably didn't weigh 140 lb. But even when he was in his mid-70s, you could see the old Golden Glove boxer and ex-Marine who'd refused to back down. He once modestly said about his work, which he wouldn't have called art, although it unquestionably was: "I project myself into...
...that with every project,” Berkeley said regarding the concerns. “People want to know if it will impact them...