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Alan White, Assistant Professor of Law at Valparaiso University, introduces the “Defending Foreclosures, Saving Homes” conference, held March 28, 2008 in Wesemann Hall, home of Valparaiso University School of Law. As the foreclosure crisis deepens, Indiana homeowners are in greater need of assistance from trained housing counselors and attorneys. The conference’s speakers have extensive experience [...]

www.beet.tv The technology boom of the late nineties, and its subsequent bust in 2000, led institutions to create exotic financial instruments to duplicate the steep gains enjoyed during the boom, says professor John H. Vogel Jr, a real estate expert at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Earlier this month I sat down with [...]

Professor Bruce Kogut introduces Dean Glenn Hubbard, who opens this conference, organized under the auspices of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School. This conference brought together leading faculty, industry experts and financial journalists to explore lessons from the current financial crisis. Speakers discussed creating a new [...]

A panel of Darden faculty offers context and explanations for the ongoing turmoil affecting the financial markets. During their discussion it seems obvious that the complex, cause-and-effect interplay of terrorist activity, Federal Reserve policy, relaxed regulation and creative mortgage financing in the last nine years created a climate of poor business leadership and loose ethics [...]

Compilation of bad motor vehicle crashes. ourlinkexchange.com

Black Nouveau previews the “Scholar Ladies,” video from HOPE Christian School which promotes scholarship; looks at the “Toys For the Children That Santa Forgot” campaign from Career Youth Development; looks back at the MLK Street Jam; highlights the Black United Fund; and profiles Joyce Gray, an entrepreneur and homeowner facing the mortgage crisis. Co-hosts: Faithe [...]

Homestead High School Senior (class of ‘09), Rodney Thompson, was killed in an automobile accident on 10-17-08. This is a tribute to him from his friends at Homestead (Fort Wayne, Indiana).

The number of well-publicized public shootings during the past few years, especially the tragedy at Columbine High School, has re-energized the gun control movement. As a show of strength, a coalition of gun control groups has organized a “Million Mom March” to be held in Washington, DC on Mother’s Day, an event designed to stir [...]

Producer: Highway Safety Films, Inc.; Sponsor: Ohio State Highway Patrol (indirectly). Creative Commons license: Public Domain. Historical driving safety film featuring numerous scenes of wrecked cars and injured / dead people. Produced in cooperation with the Ohio State Highway Patrol and shown to millions of young drivers for over 40 years. CONTENT ADVISORY: Many disturbing [...]