I posted this to the Twitter news wire yesterday, but since the original story merited a full blog post back in May (Walking Away at Olive8), I thought that Andy’s thoughtful follow-up would be worth posting as well. As it turns out, local internet entrepreneur Andy Liu didn’t end up walking away from Olive8 after…
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Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2010-01-16
Mike Mastro settles with state Department of Financial Institutions re: securities fraud. http://is.gd/65jxr # Another Seattle bureaucrat heads to DC to "work on housing policy" on a national level. http://is.gd/65xzx # RT @KirstenGrind: Sterling Financial hit with class action lawsuit: http://bit.ly/8052bU # Post-mortem on Horizon Bank: http://is.gd/68Bo0 # RT @KirstenGrind: The battle rages on for…
Four More Washington Banks on the Unofficial Problem Bank List
Calculated Risk’s Unofficial Problem Bank List continues to increase in size, with the latest update including 576 banks across the country. This update added four more Washington State banks to the list: American Marine Bank in Bainbridge Island, Pierce Commercial Bank in Tacoma, The Bank of Washington in Lynnwood, and Viking Bank in Seattle. The…
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2010-01-09
Great article in the NYT on the counter-productive nature of recent government interventions in housing. http://is.gd/5K0gx # The disappearing Boeing article I linked last week has reappeared: Boeing faces challenging economy, bitter rival in 2010 http://is.gd/5L8gp # Audio from my appearance this afternoon on KUOW has been added to the post. http://bit.ly/8tx6yW # via @TechFlash:…
Reporting Roundup: Pretend Pending Pumping Party
Time for the monthly reporting roundup, where I read all the local paper rehashes of the NWMLS press release so you don’t have to. Here’s a link to this month’s NWMLS press release: Western Washington pending home sales mark best December since 2006 “Home for the holidays” took on special meaning for 4,399 buyers whose…