New Orleans I have to give a lot of credit to New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his razor sharp aide for political affairs, Kevin Sheekey. They have definitely found one way after another to keep Mayor Mike from being seen as a lame duck. First, they trotted around the country hinting at an …
Month: March 2008
Another New Century Shoe
New Orleans Followers of the sub-prime wars still remember the place that New Century holds in the pantheon of the companies that seemed to dominate the market as Ameriquest did at one point and Countrywide did later. They were somebody then were as recently as 2006 until a year ago when they suddenly collapsed …
Recover With Organizing
New Orleans A report was issued by something called the Mercatus Center, which is based in Virginia on the campus of George Mason University. This outfit is doing a 5-year study of post-Katrina recovery efforts with a team of professors and researchers they have assembled. I suspect this is a study that starts with …