Smeared Type

Category: Writing

Date: January 02, 2010

Website address: http://www.smearedtype.com

Description: An intriguing blog with entries by several authors on various topics including but not limited arts, culture, books, and trips to other countries.

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Death, Dying, and Green Sprigs

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:44:38 +0000

By Nancy Werking Poling author of Out of the Pumpkin Shell Taking a break from sitting at my computer (I hesitate to suggest I was writing, as I spent most of the time staring at the screen), I wandered around the wooded lot of our new home. The builder conscientiously worked at destroying as few [....

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Talking to A Korean Rotary Club

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:42:36 +0000

By Jian Ping I visited several Rotary Clubs in the greater Chicago area recently, talking about my memoir Mulberry Child and today’s China. Elizabeth, a club member at Barrington, introduced me to Jim at the Korean Club after my appearance at her club. I exchanged a few emails with Jim and set t...

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The Banksters are Back!

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:26:44 +0000

By: Ellis Goodman After the 1929 Wall Street Crash, the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency was established to identify the actions and causes that led to the Depression. This Commission in their hearings humiliated many of the leading bankers of the era, coining the phrase “Banksters�...

http://www.smearedtype.com/2010/07/the-banksters-are-back-3/

Mulberry Tree

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:19:08 +0000

By Jian Ping I’ve been riding my bike along the Michigan lakefront trail from Museum Park by Roosevelt to the 63rd Street Park since early spring. It’s a beautiful route: starting by the Field Museum, going around Shedd Aquarium, passing behind the McCormick Place…. The trail extends for miles...

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Banking and the Economic Recovery

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:14:57 +0000

By: Ellis Goodman Don’t look to the nation’s banks to help us out of this economic recovery by lending to small, medium, or even large businesses, supporting entrepreneurial ventures, or financing new construction. The unfortunate truth is that our banks are no longer bankers. They have be...

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