“1. Mortgage company is saying they won’t work with our lawyer as he doesn’t have E&O insurance. Is it common for closing lawyers to have E&O? common for mortgage companies to require?” I’ve never heard this before. But I don’t do closings, so it could be standard and I woul...
David Boaz reaches back to Frederic Bastiatto put the final nail in the coffin on this one: s Frederic Bastiat explained the “broken window fallacy,” a boy breaks a shop window. Villagers gather around and deplore the boy’s vandalism. But then one of the more sophisticated townspeople, ...
The police department was being investigated by the Department of Justice, and the FBI had set up an office inside the Orleans Parish School Board, so deep was the corruption (2,000 employees had health insurance for which they weren't eligible, according to Tulane researcher Doug Harris). Ne...