New Orleans I have often quoted a line by a former Republican OMB director that we should “never suffer from premature certainty,” and given the disaster that banks, the Treasury Department, the Bush and Obama Administrations, and the servicers have made of the housing crises and its millions of homeowner victims, I almost hesitate to …
Month: April 2011
Mobile Phone Money Transfers No Panacea Yet
New Orleans The bleeding edge hope for technology in handling finance is often seen as Africa and more specifically Kenya and very pointedly mobile phones. To the degree a mobile phone system could obviate having bank accounts and ease the problems and costs of money transfer for remittances, this could be a good news except …
Americans are Liberals – Get Over It!
New Orleans On ACORN International’s research projects over the last six months, I have often credited our “intern army” of young interns and older researchers. I’m now “crowdsourcing” more research. Today thanks go to Jesse Ginsburg, a hard luck Baltimore Orioles diehard fan (congrats on their hot opening this season!) who sent me a couple …