New Orleans Even as the stock market sets new highs week after week, the warning lights are lit up on the problems in the housing markets. We noticed two things recently of interest in the Wall Street Journal. First, delinquencies are rising. The top markets reflecting the biggest increases in the rate of delinquency were …
Month: October 2006
Wal-Mart’s Bad Month
New Orleans October has not been the best month for our friends at Wal-Mart’s. It turns out to be hard to run the world after all. It also seems that maybe Mr. Sam’s advice to keep out of politics and hunker down in Bentonville may not have been hopelessly old school, but may have been …
What’s Not Happening in Registration?
New Orleans Following the millions of immigrants, particularly Latinos, this spring, one of the often repeated objectives seemed to be voter registration. There was talk of registering 1,000,000 new Latino voters by 2008. Having beaten that number overall in 2004, ACORN and its family of organizations, including Project Vote, know something about how hard that …