Los Angeles I have now been to a fair number of meetings with top level executives at big lending institutions with billions of dollars in home mortgages that they have moved through their portfolios. Their suits are nice. Their knowledge is detailed and exacting. The abbreviations are mind boggling. The sincerity and good will …
Month: May 2007
Sam’s Girl, Hillary
New Orleans I can still remember my surprise a couple of years ago when someone from New York challenged me on the issue of whether or not Hillary Clinton had been a board member of Wal-Mart. Her connections to the Arkansas-based, world’s largest corporation and one of the world’s largest employers are not something …
Deliberative Polling–Fake Democracy
New Orleans Catching up on news I had missed, a picture a couple of weeks ago in the Times caught my eye because it seemed to involve the Roma (formally gypsies) and how they should fit into the society of Bulgaria where they constitute more than 10% of the population. When the Organizers’ Forum …