New Orleans Less than three years ago in 2007 we were all fighting tooth-and-nail to try to stop the big beef of private equity KKR with Henry Kravis, Texas Pacific with David Bonderman, and Goldman Sachs with most of the western world from doing a crazy $50 billion purchase of TXU, the giant public utility, …
Month: March 2010
Opt Out of Predatory Overdraft Fees
New Orleans Finally Congress does the right thing, or at least some of the right things, and passes credit reform legislation, and now we have the spectacle of the federally bailed out banks desperately trying to hoodwink citizen customers into volunteering to allow their pockets to be picked. Banks have been making $40 billion in …
Planting Trees In Korogocho
New Orleans I mentioned last week from Nairobi that one of the high points of the launch for ACORN Kenya involved a traditional ceremony where we planted trees to show that something new was being planted deeply, cared for seriously, and would grow strong over time. In our first crack at using a “flip camera,” …