ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
Ask anybody who really knows her, and they’ll tell you Laura Richardson always wanted to be exactly where she is right now. No, not surrounded by her history of house foreclosures and unpaid bills and dog-ate-my-homework excuses for government regulators, a carousel of controversy that’s being played out to the rhythmic beat-down [...]

Al-Qaeda and adjustable rate mortgages
The FBI announced yesterday it had received a tip that Al-Qaeda is planning to attack shopping malls in L.A. and Chicago during the holiday shopping season. The FBI also announced it considered the tip unreliable, and had no real information about any mall attacks. Since the second announcement completely undermines the [...]