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Tuesday, May 19, 2009 4:50 PM
| By
Dayo Olopade
New York Times reporter Edmund Andrews wrote a doozy of a story
in a recent issue of the paper’s magazine, about how he went from a
beaming homeowner and newlywed to an anxious debtor who owed hundreds
of thousands of dollars on his mortgage. He described the trials and
headaches of borrowing, and throughout the story, a basic disbelief
that he, a reporter *who covers economics,* could have been caught up
in the same overzealous swindling and poor decision-making that he
wrote about for the Times.
His story may have been cause for a lot of rubbernecking and tsk-ing
among readers, but Dana Goldstein and Megan McArdle have perhaps hit on... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)
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