New Orleans Joe Nocera, the “Talking Business” columnist for the New York Times wrote a “peoples” piece today, which is worth a couple of atta-boys! The whole problem of home mortgages and the ridiculous power of credit scores (FICO scores) could be the subject of whole books for the scam involved and the damage done, …
Month: July 2010
Energy Politics in California: PG&E versus Chevron
San Francisco After a day of meetings by chance I was invited to sit in as a guest for a while at a monthly dinner on Mission at La Corneta of an ad hoc group of seasoned labor activists and organizers. After a while Mike Miller threw a topic on the table that everyone jumped …
No Relief for Foreclosure Victims
Portland Are you kidding me? What does it take for the Treasury Department to make the foreclosure modification program to work? Well, they have to actually run the program and supervise the banks, rather than let the foxes run and guard the hen house. Seems the inspector general for TARP – the bailout program – …