Posts with tag Nixon

Not long ago I wrote a post about a National Bureau of Economic Research study that blamed the Great Recession on a bank panic rather than that usual suspect, the sub-prime mortgage crisis. There was a sub-prime crisis, sure, but it was just the catalyst for the much more damaging bank panic that followed. All this... Continue Reading »

Just because you buy a former president's home doesn't mean you'll live like one. That's what happened to the owners of 500 Bay Lane on Key Biscayne, Fla. Dubbed the Florida White House, Nixon visited the home overlooking Biscayne Bay and the city of Miami about 50 times during his presidency from 1969 to 1974. The former... Continue Reading »