Daily Archives: July 18, 2017

Subprime redux: problems brewing in auto loans

It’s classic subprime: hasty loans, rapid defaults, and, at times, outright fraud.  Only this isn’t the U.S. housing market circa 2007. It’s the U.S. auto industry circa 2017.  A decade after the mortgage debacle, the financial industry has embraced another … Continue reading

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Report on Trump business dealings with Russian investors

Craig Unger discusses his investigative piece in The New Republic, “Trump’s Russian Laundromat:  How to use Trump Tower and other luxury high-rises to clean dirty money, run an international crime syndicate, and propel a failed real estate developer into the … Continue reading

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Container farmers

Ian Brown and David Pendergast founded Agora Greens in the beginning of 2016 and quickly began building a successful business growing fresh produce year-round in Walpole, Massachusetts. Using the Leafy Green Machine, the two grow a variety of lettuces, herbs … Continue reading

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