usa finances
so, uh, my bank failed. yeah, yeah, fdic (thank goodness). my money is safe. but damn. my bank failed.
why exactly did these banks think it was smart to bet on subprime mortgages? seriously folks, the economist has been saying subprime mortgages would cause problems for at least five or six years now.
i wonder what the deal will be with freddie mac/fannie mae for taking out student loans next year.
i'm really glad my job is unionized, but nyc is going to be facing some serious cuts, and legal services will surely be among them. there's no civil right to counsel, and we were already facing huge cuts from just the last city budget in june or whenever it was. with a good portion of our donations coming directly from wall st, and an even greater portion coming form the corporate firms that got rich off of wall street, we'll be facing cutbacks there too.
at least nari and i finally got our hole puncher before they cut our office supply availability more (someone took the hole puncher from our office. it sucked. i didn't want to spend my own money to bu ya new one, but for whatever reason, getting a new one from the office manager took weeks and our old one had just walked off).
i did get a haircut, but the way. it looks kind of like the profile picture above. I went to V2 Salon in Chinatown. Nice head massage, not too expensive. Nice thinning out of my insanely thick hair.
and then i got some cash from the atm just in case i can't access my money for a little while. just..wow.
why exactly did these banks think it was smart to bet on subprime mortgages? seriously folks, the economist has been saying subprime mortgages would cause problems for at least five or six years now.
i wonder what the deal will be with freddie mac/fannie mae for taking out student loans next year.
i'm really glad my job is unionized, but nyc is going to be facing some serious cuts, and legal services will surely be among them. there's no civil right to counsel, and we were already facing huge cuts from just the last city budget in june or whenever it was. with a good portion of our donations coming directly from wall st, and an even greater portion coming form the corporate firms that got rich off of wall street, we'll be facing cutbacks there too.
at least nari and i finally got our hole puncher before they cut our office supply availability more (someone took the hole puncher from our office. it sucked. i didn't want to spend my own money to bu ya new one, but for whatever reason, getting a new one from the office manager took weeks and our old one had just walked off).
i did get a haircut, but the way. it looks kind of like the profile picture above. I went to V2 Salon in Chinatown. Nice head massage, not too expensive. Nice thinning out of my insanely thick hair.
and then i got some cash from the atm just in case i can't access my money for a little while. just..wow.