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Chase, Dimon and Arrogance before Fall

Jamie Dimon

San Miguel de Allende    It’s a dogpile now, so I feel totally justified in saying “I told you so” for the umpteenth time after years of being a Cassandra about the damage that Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan Chase CEO, and his bank had done to the country by bullying the Treasury Department and [...]

Is Head Start Obama’s “No Child Left Behind?”

New Orleans   HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced that about 132 Head Start agencies charged with providing pre-school education for the poor will go through “redesignation.”  Redesignation really means that they will lose their contracts and go through a rebidding process because they have been found deficient in some respect.  Many of the deficiencies seem [...]

Citizen Participation in Paterno and Banks Settle for Billions On Small Foreclosure Aid

Paterno    Every place is different whether town or country, but there’s something about waiting for a meeting to start in many countries that always feels the same.  My presentation in Paterno before the members of La Citta civic movement and many others who had been invited was scheduled for 7 pm.  I had been warned [...]

Support for Taxing the Rich

New Orleans I won’t say it’s a sea change, but there are starting to be some encouraging signs of change among the elites and critical chattering classes on the issue of more equitable taxation, particularly the need for the rich to pay their fair share.

In a recent issue of the New Yorker, surely a [...]