Have you ever wanted to temporarily suppress console output in Python? But you really want it to be temporary, even if an exception happens. Maybe you are calling into some idiot’s library who spams your console. Yeah, that’s happened to me before (maybe I was the idiot–I’m not tellin’). Here’s a handy way to suppress […]

Loans are a convenient way to acquire assets that don’t have an immediate economic benefit, but which can provide long-term liquidity, and in this case can help finance long-term growth. The Federal Reserve has provided a lot of aid to banks that are facing the difficulties that have been occurring in the real estate market. […]