http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover/print

Another opportunity to get royally pissed off and despairing relating to what's been going on with the current financial crisis, its antecedents, and various bailout-related program activities.

*sigh*

Honestly, I don't know if there's anything that I can actually do about this, other than to attempt to light a fire under my senators to at least go add some damned oversight and regulation to the banking business.

Seriously, this whole situation just seems surreal.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/news/2007/05/microlenders

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/news/2007/05/microlending_tips

Hmm. (Mostly a placeholder for me to think about this more later...not necessarily as a business opportunity so much as an interesting distributed lending system. Yes, I know that microlending is not new, but for some reason I had assumed that the 'micro' referred only to the amounts being borrowed, not (also) the amounts being loaned.)