Tampa, the GOP, and the Subprime Mess There’s a stunning irony in the choice of venues for the GOP convention that is likely lost on most Republicans. Tampa, Florida, was home to an entire division of Countrywide — the mortgage lender that played an enormous part in the nation’s economic downturn by saturating the market with subprime mortgages and then bundling them together into securities that c
There’s been an awful lot of oxygen used on the campaign trail, during the debates, and in heated discussions by pundits, about Mitt Romney’s record as a so-called job creator. The discussion has centered around the various conflicting claims that Mitt has made over the years about how many jobs he created while at Bain Capital — ranging from 10,000 to 120,000.
Last week Bank of America announced it would be charging customers a monthly fee to use its debit cards to use their own money to make purchases. Today, Citibank announced it would be increasing its fees for its checking accounts. The news media are buzzing and the public seems to be bristling at these developments. This should come as no surprise. By way of background, let’s take a trip down big-bank memory
There were some rumors floating around that Keith Olbermann had been stifled and his outspoken political diatribes would be silenced because he had just signed a lucrative contract with NBC, whose parent company is GE. (Contrary to what you might believe based on their warm and fuzzy image ads, GE doesn’t just make lightbulbs and energy-efficient dishwashers. They’re also one of the largest defense contra
Telecom giant SBC has a product that they’re hawking called “SBC Unified Communications.” In theory, it sounds like a convenient technology — all your voice mail from all your phones in a single account, which you can play back from any phone (residential land line or Cingular cell phone) or from a browser based mailbox. Plus you can receive faxes in the mailbox, too, and print them out. Sound
OK. So I get this Email from Stamps.com about my account: We are writing to inform you about an important change to your Stamps.com service plan. We are in the process of discontinuing our Simple Plan. Customers currently using the Simple Planâ„¢ will be automatically moved to the Power Plan. This change in your service will be effective Thursday, March 24, 2005. The new monthly service fee for your Power Plan accoun
