Former hedge fund manager Raj Bhatia and mortgage broker Albert Behin are convinced they can make money buying “toxic assets” — the stuff that’s killing banks’ balance sheets. The two have lined up a couple of investors, and now they’re getting ready to buy some mortgages.
What Bhatia and Behin are doing is a free-market solution to the crisis. But they’re only two guys.
“There are not enough of us out there to absorb what’s out there,” Bhatia says. “You got to remember, there’s trillions of dollars of product right now that has to be worked through.”
“You can’t sit around grumpy, moping and feeling sorry for yourself in this recession,” the retired 76-year-old said. “You’ve got to get off your duff and do something. And what more can you do but open up a retail store to provide quality goods at good prices? 
President Barack Obama has chosen Kathleen Merrigan, an organic food expert who helped the US Senate develop labelling rules for organic food, to be second-in-command at the Agriculture Department. Sustainable and organic farmers are thrilled that someone who has been associated with these issues her whole career is going to be at such a high level in the department.
Traffic on Regent Street in London came to a halt as rock legends U2 performed on a roof top for thousands of commuters. 
