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Hedge Your Hedge

sneigwh.blogspot.com Say it ain’t so.  How many more obscure, undercapitalized financial institutions are lurking in the midst?  According to a New York Times investigative article, and summarized here, Customer Asset Protection Company (Capco), based in Burlington, Vermont, may be at…

Tracking The $787 Billion Government Stimulus Projects

There are two software tracking applications of the federal government stimulus package (formally known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act).  One is the government’s, found at recovery.gov, which is oriented towards taxpayers who want to know how their tax…

Dispatches From The Heartland

Ted Crow/The Plain Dealer To many Clevelanders and Ohioans, the economy never recovered from the last recession, or several prior to it, for that matter.   Today’s headlines and stories in the Cleveland Plain Dealer highlighted the state’s 10.2% unemployment rate…