Industry Figure Tom Chappell

From the New York Times:
The blogger Tanta, an influential voice on the mortgage collapse, died Sunday morning in Columbus, Ohio.
Tanta, who wrote for Calculated Risk, a finance and economics blog, was a pseudonym for Doris Dungey, 47, who until recently had lived in Upper Marlboro, Md. The cause of death was ovarian cancer, her [...]

Christopher Thornberg, the most bearish of the housing experts quoted in the Los Angeles Times earlier this year (predicting in March that Southern California home prices would eventually fall 40% from their peaks), now expects that prices will keep dropping throughout 2009, until they’ve fallen 55% from their peak.
Even I found that a sobering estimate.
That [...]

Despite my insane shyness with strangers, I made six calls for Obama this evening, via his phone-bank-from-home web site. The web site just kept feeding me names, phone numbers, and polling places. I could tell people where their polling places were, and if they needed a ride to their polling place, I could [...]