The Mortgage Lender Implode-o-Meter has a useful list of companies that have gone belly up in the subprime mortgage crisis that appears to be more the trigger than the overall cause of the current financial meltdown. I was looking at it Friday, browsing the stories, and some of it is pretty incredible (the list of 285 failures is pretty incredible). Reading about the first failure, Merit Financial, gives a flavor of just how freewheeling these firms could be:
The 42 complaints received by state agencies and the Better Business Bureau give insight into Merit's problems. Addressed individually, none was ...Continue reading
Happy One Web Day
Today is One Web Day, its third annual celebration. The event, an “Earth Day for the Internet,” is the brainchild... View Article
Continue readingIn Broad Daylight: Lobbyists, Financial Advisers
Two years ago, I was named Time’s person of the year and now I own an insurance company, two mortgage... View Article
Continue readingGrading the States on Disclosure
Campaign Disclosure Project, a collaboration of the UCLA School of Law, the Center for Government Studies, and the California Voter... View Article
Continue readingTCS posts Senate Defense Authorization earmarks
Our friends at Taxpayers inform us that they've just posted...
The complete database of earmarks in the 2009 defense authorization report and bill. The Senate version of the bill currently under debate contains 435 earmarks worth $5.2 billion, a big jump in number from last year's Senate authorization but a decrease in total value.
They posted an analysis and highlights from the bill here.
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Can You Read a Bill in Under 24 Hours?
Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted on a bill that ought to offend Americans of all stripes. The culmination of... View Article
Continue readingMAPLight.org’s New Tool
Sunlight grantee MAPLight.org shows the impact of campaign contributions on legislative votes via technology. And by making these connections transparent... View Article
Continue readingIn Wisconsin legislation belongs to the lobbyists?
Cross posted from Open Records Blog In the case of Lautenschlager v. Gunderson, a Wisconsin appeals court has dismissed an... View Article
Continue readingS. 223 Keeps Getting Support
Like the Little Engine that Could, Senate Bill 223, the Campaign Disclosure Parity Act, keeps chugging along against some pretty... View Article
Continue readingOne Web Day
My friend Susan Crawford has many accomplishments, not the least of which is as the founder of One Web Day,... View Article
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