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 Issue of February 25, 2008 
   
Future Investments
Community bankers are making changes to the way they do business this year, according to a survey released last week by the American Bankers Association.
Tours of Duty
Realtors in the Bay State and across the nation have come up with a rather creative way to generate new business during the ongoing foreclosure crisis: by offering guided bus tours of bank-owned homes for sale.
Despite Slump, More Housing Is Needed
By Benjamin Fierro III
It may seem counterintuitive to some, but what the Massachusetts economy needs during the current housing slump is more housing.

A Place to Live: Revisiting the Vocabulary of Housing
By Nicolas P. Retsinas
Dictionaries are not static. Some words go unused for so long that lexicographers dub them “archaic.”

AIG Write-Downs Bolster Beleaguered Sarbanes-Oxley Rules
By Rachel Beck
This is what we mean by holding one’s feet to the fire: American International Group’s auditors told the giant insurer that its credit-portfolio’s valuations were flawed, forcing AIG to take a $4.88 billion write-down.

Check & Balance
Banker & Tradesman's political cartoon.


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