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...many of those condos and McMansions are now homes for little more than the ghosts of greed and stupidity. Federal Housing Administration loans, which have more lenient credit and down-payment requirements, can help some low-income buyers scoop up some of those units. "But most of those homes will never be available to the people we serve," insists Lloyd Boggio, a Miami developer and chairman of the Florida Coalition of Affordable Housing Providers. Some communities are using federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program funds to buy up foreclosed homes and convert them into rental units, but they say it's hardly...
...newfound humanitarianism comes at a time when the deleterious effects of inequality and the destructive consequences of greed are coming into arrestingly sharp resolution. Economic and political configurations which seemed unshakable just a year ago have been laid low by the cumulative efforts of a class of well-educated buffoons. We could easily have been those buffoons had we been born just a few years earlier. Only recently have their mistakes become unmistakable...
...equally disturbing, scene - the rapacious, debt-funded and seemingly insatiable spending habits of upwardly mobile West Coast Americans. Assigned to cover this world, he is compelled to emulate it, purchasing gargantuan televisions, unnecessary beauty treatments, pricey meals, and shady real estate. With dry British wit, he skewers American greed, L.A. life, and his own endless romantic foibles. (Read "Living in a World with Less Credit...
...decades, the mantra about Wall Street has gone from "Greed is good" to "Banks are bad." The winds of a new Depression demand that that salutary trend of the movie '30s be revived. Oliver Stone, get to work. In the meantime, with brilliant bloody timing, here comes The International, a spy thriller with a theme worth mulling: that moneymen are the root of all evil...
...entered, however, is markedly different from where it has been before. The concept of the American Dream is not only in the midst of a reevaluation, the morality of aspects of that Dream is in question. If, in coming years, the old unbridled pursuit of happiness (corporate greed, sub-prime mortgages) comes to be synonymous with a decaying economy and an injured American spirit, might this threaten the boundless optimism to which Pepsi has tied itself? Will the benefits of identifying the Pepsi brand so closely with Obama’s clarion call for a new era of hope carry...