It seems some of the biggest, most profitable banks in America could be responsible for your property values dropping and your neighborhood becoming less safe as a result of poorly maintained vacant homes. From the Boston Globe: Two of the city’s top delinquent landlords are not landlords at all. They’re banks. City officials said Wells [...]

This article in the Huffington Post about how Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is pushing the state attorneys general to quickly as possible “bring to bed” their investigations of the wide-scale systematic violations of law by the nation’s largest financial institutions is a great reminder that, in America, there is a very important theft-to-punishment inflection point [...]