Food Stamp Record November 26, 2008 New Orleans The mounting economic tragedy seems to have us poised on the edge of the worst financial calamity since the Great Depression. A footnote to this mess is that according to Jane Black writing in today’s Washington Post, we are also poised to set a new record in …
Month: November 2008
Brookings, Cuba, Drugs, and Immigration
Brookings, Cuba, Drugs, and Immigration November 25, 2008 New Orleans Sometimes I find surprises in very unlikely places and in this case it was in a recently released Brookings Institute report called, “Rethinking U.S.-Latin American Relationships: A Hemispheric Partnership for a Troubled World.” The report was as mainline as I could imagine and produced …
Fedi-Bank
Fedi-Bank November 24, 2008 New Orleans We now finally know how to put a name on a bank that is classified as “too big to fail.” Rather than calling it Citibank or Citi, we can now name it Fedibank or just Fedi which will fit in nicely with the other government banks out …