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Pushing Back the Banks in the Wake of Occupy

Orleans Given all of the niggling around the impact of the Occupy Wall Street movement and its impact, it is worth raising some footnotes a little higher on the tally sheet where the results are important, but perhaps unnoticed.  Take these recent developments into account.
Small example, but telling is that JP Morgan Chase, [...]

No One Regulating Remittances

 Toronto            Preparing to meet with the ACORN International “intern army,” as I call them, at George Brown College today, I couldn’t help but laugh while using the Starbucks internet (thanks, fellas!) when I read that Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase was over at Davos complaining about “banker bashing” and France’s President Sarkozy was forced [...]

With Banks, Speak Softly and Carry No Stick

New Orleans On the front page of the papers today there is more drumbeating about the President having yet another meeting with the nation’s top bankers to jawbone them to finally start making loans to small businesses and homeowners.  At this point it is hard to even call this jawboning.  It’s more like gumming [...]

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