Tag Archive: TARP
Land heals the stress of giving

Land heals the stress of giving

Remember Neel Kashkari? Here’s a hint: $700 billion. Here’s another: TARP. Kashkari was the bald guy who handed out $400 billion to 540 banks and presided over another $50 billion intended to prevent foreclosures.

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We walk and talk: A Bub in the woods

Three big helicopters flew in low and fast over Devil’s Backbone, the 4,000-foot-high Appalachian ridge that is the eastern rim of my end of Virginia’s Blue Grass Valley.

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Consider buying rural land in 2009

Consider buying rural land in 2009

The year 2008 started out not so good for a lot of people and ended up worse than anyone imagined. We begin 2009 afraid of what’s coming. Most of us are scared about our income…

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The Knight Before Christmas

(With apologies to Clement Moore, and my 11th-grade English teacher, Miss DeFrance, who said, correctly, that I was a lousy poet.)

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