BizJournals Portfolio
Dec 05 2007 12:00am EDT

Extra Credit, Wednesday Edition

US house price index only now indicating depth of crisis

Small-town America: The new Bangalore?

Homeowners With Negative Equity

The Samwick Family Fund: Giving stock to charity, made easy.

Subsidising rootedness: "When people speak of 'putting down roots', they generally have house-buying in mind. But roots are for vegetables."

Economists' Chanuka: "Akerlof’s part jewish, Herb Simon’s part too/ Bundle them together, what a fine econ jew"

And finally (Andrew Leonard has the rebuttal):

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