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Walla Wallas by Dale Chiluly is part of an installation of the artist’s works in Nashville.

Your honor, I’m so incompetent I can’t find my paper. Save me, pretty please. The banks that wrote the law on promissory notes put in Plan B just in case.

Here’s a wonky explanation of the law of negotiable instruments. It tells you why banksters are worried about foreclosure-gate.

Madame de Loynes was a real person with a fascinating story. That is the fun part of portraits.

For a change, the employees involved in the foreclosure have a chance to protect themselves, but only if they realize they have a problem.

David Axelrod is sure the fraudulent foreclosures by banksters can be corrected by “reconstructing” their paperwork.

The Lacemaker by Johannes Vermeer is a craftsman’s work about craftmanship.

Skeptics doubt CFTC-SEC report on the flash crash, which exonerates high frequency trading. HFT folk love it. This isn’t good for retail investors.

Banks aren’t foreclosing in states that require Judicial foreclosure. You may be able to use bankruptcy to stop foreclosures in states that don’t require court approval of foreclosure.

Knights in shining armor, pretty maidens: the ingredients of two stories.