The Vig

My brother tells me he helped design this house which was featured in the New York Times this last week.  He’s also got some ideas for the Noodle compound in Belmont.
Once you accept the fact he’s smarter than you or me, life becomes much easier.  We’ll be making our rent checks out to him soon.

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Watching the coverage of the mortgage meltdown, we’re starting to see some of the blame shifted from the lenders and their shady practices and onto the borrowers.  And it’s wrong.
We’re not talking about lower-class “morons” with 610 FICO scores here. We’re talking about your neighbor who refinanced their house six times in five years […]

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