AltWeeklies Wire
As Natural Resources Dwindle, Vermont's Scrap Yards Find Business Boomingnew
If you bring a ton of No. 1 Steel to a scrap yard today, you'll get a check for $210; last year you might have taken home only $130 for the same weight. The booming market has even spun off its own cottage industry of thieves.
Seven Days |
Kirk Kardashian |
04-21-2008 |
Economy
Bond Market Collapse Worries Student-Loan Agencynew
The latest crisis on Wall Street has Vermont's largest student lender scrambling to secure $190 million to meet the demand for loans it expects to make this fall.
Seven Days |
Brian Wallstin |
03-14-2008 |
Economy
Lawmakers Question Plan for "Limited Liability" Ownership of VT Yankeenew
The terms "nuclear power" and "limited liability corporation" make strange bedfellows, and the idea of marrying the two doesn't lie, er, sit, well with many Vermont lawmakers.
Seven Days |
Ken Picard |
02-15-2008 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
Planet Aid: Help to the Poor or Charitable Pandora’s Box?new
Some people are asking whether the national nonprofit is siphoning donations away from other, well-established local charities, or actually benefiting the poor people it claims to help.
Seven Days |
Ken Picard |
01-14-2008 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
Subprime Lenders Staying Away From Vermontnew
The state's traditions of community banking and Yankee frugality appear to have helped insulate the state from the subprime lending crisis rocking housing markets in many parts of the country.
Seven Days |
Kevin J. Kelley |
05-25-2007 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
