Moreover, even if housing prices rose at their historic norms, the painful truth is that these securities were still likely to fail. [read post]

Leslie Wolf, JD 1998 Harvard University, MPH Johns Hopkins University Public Health Golden Gate University Heather Murr, JD 1994 University of California, Hastings, Visiting Assistant Professor University of San Diego John Marshall Law SchoolKim Chanbonpin, JD 2003 University of Hawaii, LLM 2006 Law Georgetown University, Teaching Fellow Loyola University New Orleans Shahram Dana, JD 1997 Boston University, PhD 2008 Law Maastricht University, LLM 2002 Law Leiden University, Assistant Professor… [read post]

For once, his New York re-arranged itself into a stage fit for, say, Rossini's "Le Siege de Corinth" or some dark, nationalist epic by Verdi or Puccini that ends with bodies strewn all over and the tragic but noble hero grieving for his devastated people and, perhaps, foretelling a new dawn. [read post]