Oh, the irony...
Back when I was econoblogging a good deal of the time, I found the Commerce Department's EconomicIndicators.gov to be a very useful site, a place to find most of the monthly and quarterly economic statistics in one handy place. Of course, if you're expecting the economic news to be bad, kill the messenger; I noticed this announcement at the site when I dropped by today:
Due to budgetary constraints, the Economic Indicators service (http://www.economicindicators.gov) will be discontinued effective March 1, 2008.
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State Level Predatory Lending Rules Were Blocked
Eliot Spitzer says some states tried to pass rules to limit predatory lending, but the Bush administration blocked the efforts:
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2008/02/state-level-pre.html
Posted by: Kevin | February 14, 2008 01:56 PM