New Orleans The scorecard is finally being written on the ballyhooed, though mostly baloney, loan modifications being done by big home mortgage loan servicers and trumpeted by the federal government (and largest shareholder in many of these outfits) as a real plan for foreclosure relief, and it stinks. Gretchen Morgenson in a searing Times column …
Month: July 2009
Learning the Book Biz
New Orleans This book thing is a trip! Every time I turn around I’m getting slapped up the face by the learning curve. It’s not easy to write a book or get one published, so I’m not complaining, just explaining. But, it also turns out that in this brave new, internet dominated world, it’s also …
Banks Piling On
New Orleans There just seems to be no shame among most of the nation’s big banking institutions. Despite their recklessness and greed that frog marched us into a semi-great depression, they continue to aggressively resist all movement to reform their ways and now are fleecing us more heartily than ever before with charges that fairly …