New Orleans Part of the digital divide crushing lower income families turns out to be the slick way that law firms and others have been exploiting the court system to harass people with credit problems and then pile on more debt, fees, and collection charges by automating the process. In the same way that bottom …
Month: July 2010
Birdseye on Citizens’ Wealth in Atlanta
Atlanta It’s not often I get something that seems like a focus group on Citizen Wealth and the issues it raises, but that’s almost exactly what I enjoyed in Atlanta in a class of 35 on the “Economics of Poverty” where as part of the required reading they had gone through my book with a …
Put a Cap on Well Hell!
Atlanta Man, I hope this works! I don’t want another couple of months of oil in the Gulf of Mexico while relief wells are dug. The Wall Street Journal wrote optimistically this morning that the “new” sealing cap could finally the lifesaver, and I really, really want to believe them. The New York Times pulling …