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...concern for some. It includes buying out flood-damaged homes in the flood plain to make way for green space, flood walls and levees. "The city didn't look after their people," says Frank King, a neighborhood leader. "They have used this flood for economic cleansing, to get rid of the substandard housing that used to be homes for many people...
...there is much more unraveling - deleveraging, to be technical about it - to come. Gluskin Sheff's Rosenberg looked at the ratio of household debt to total net worth and figured that for things to fall back in line with where they've been historically, Americans would have to get rid of some $3 trillion to $5 trillion in debt over the next few years. (Read "Lidia Bastianich Saves Our Dough.") Lansing and San Francisco Fed colleague Reuven Glick ran a simulation of what would happen if U.S. consumers followed a path similar to that of Japanese businesses in the 1990s...
...state constitution is the third longest in the world, and it has more than 500 amendments. But to gather this convention, Bay Area Council CEO Jim Wunderman has to put an initiative on the 2010 ballot. "It's ironic, right? We need an initiative," he says, "to get rid of the initiative...
Wunderman had totally convinced me of his plan's merit until he told me the new constitution wasn't really going to get rid of initiatives. "If you tried to eliminate the initiative process, it would be DOA. We suggest you require that initiatives have to identify their funding source." I had never wanted Dick Cheney to take over an organization before...
Second, it is most important to keep the memory of the great sacrifices alive that had to be made to put an end to the terror of National Socialism and to liberate its victims and to rid all people of its yoke. This is why I want to say a particular word of gratitude to the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, for visiting this particular memorial. It gives me an opportunity to align yet again that we Germans shall never forget, and we owe the fact that we were given the opportunity after...