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Hard to have any sympathy for these two.
Sounds like it might be fun to experience this!
I heard this guy interviewed on NPR yesterday afternoon as I was Happy Hour bound. IMO, a jerk all the way. I like upper middle class people who have some class. This Dude is a whiner and a weenie. The interviewer (can't remember his name, a guy with an annoying patronizing voice) seemed to buy his line all the way. He was in love..... I've been in love. Other than leading me to get married I don't remember that is made me stupid.
Hello, if they are in love all they need is a baby sitter and a strong bedstead and some eats in the fridge. Oh yeah, and some chicharrones and Pace Picante sauce in case the UncleM stops by.
I heard him on NPR, he was insufferable. He must have said "the love of my life" 5 times. I bet his kids want to hear that. Total jerk with huge sense of entitlement.
He seems like a douchebag ( am I allowed to say that on this forum?(
He is a major idiot and I have to wonder about the credibility of the NYT to hire such a moron and let him write on financial matters!
He is a major idiot and I have to wonder about the credibility of the NYT to hire such a moron and let him write on financial matters!
Aha - it took me some digging online, but the secret is out.I don't actually use Pace Picante Sauce - you can get Tiger Sauce in Kansas City.
New Orleans - and here I thought it was Baton Rouge.
Man ya gotta read the fine print on everything nowadays.
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heh heh heh -
Yeah. Pace used to be a Texas company. Then it was bought by a company from New Jersey - LOL!Aha - it took me some digging online, but the secret is out.
The real source of Pace Picante Sauce is CSC, aka the Campbell Soup Company, 1 Campbell Place Camden, NJ
NEW JERSEY!!!!!
My sense of reality has been shattered.
Pace family members (there are 15 living by our count) didn't get a dime of the proceeds--Goldsbury pocketed all of it.
The Road to Bankruptcy - Megan McArdle
as posted on bogleheads: There is more to Andrews' book/story than was revealed ... until now.
Dear Mr Solman
You are normally one of my favorite reporters, not just on the News Hour, but period. You do a great job in explaining economic issues.
I think you did a great disservice to the public, in giving a scam artist like Ed Andrews and his serial dead beat wife a platform to hawk his book.
A bit of Googling would have revealed that his wife Patty has declared bankruptcy twice in the last decade. A remarkable feat as clearly demonstrated in this Atlantic article The Road to Bankruptcy - Megan McArdle.
There are many real victims in this crisis, auto workers and dealers, people who were wiped out due to illness etc.
Ed and Patty aren't victims. Despite incomes in the top 10-20% of all households, the chose to live beyond their means. Knowing full well if their "gamble" failed that we the taxpayers and responsible members of society would suffer the consequences.
I am sorry they aren't in jail. I see little difference between a guy who robs a Best Buy of a big screen TV and these two who borrow money with no intention of paying it back.
I hope you do a follow up on this story, with the additional information that was uncovered, either on air or on the website.
clifp, Solman's piece was produced before McArdle's piece appeared, so Google would not have helped him. But now Andrews can write a sequel to his book and maybe other journalists can start pointing fingers at each other.
It is all rather amusing to me. Probably a movie will be in the works as well.
Since back taxes are not discharged during bankruptcy. It is clear there were other debts involved and not being ableto ditch the payment of taxes, forced them to ditch their other debts. Once again showing the Patty and/or ex-husband is living beyond her means.These bankruptcies did occur, but they had nothing to do with our mortgage woes. They were both tied to old debts from before we were married or bought a house. They had nothing to do with my ability to get a mortgage; nor did they have anything to do with our subsequent financial problems....
The first bankruptcy in 1998, five years before Patty and I got together. It occurred because Patty's former husband, a producer of TV commercials in Los Angeles, didn't file income tax returns for five years. Patty, who was a stay-at-home mom and wasn't earning money, was blindsided. She had been signing returns, but he hadn't actually been filing them.
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This begs the question of what kind of person borrows money from her sister and than pisses her off enough that she follows them across country to sue them,and than rather than paying back the sister declare bankruptcy.Patty's second bankruptcy stemmed from a loan she received from her sister, while Patty was still living in Los Angeles. At the time, she was caring for four children, working for very modest pay, and receiving almost no child support from her ex-husband. (Despite multiple court orders, he remains chronically delinquent on untold thousands of dollars.)