New Orleans Are you kidding me? The Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao called for breaking up the banks because they are making too much money and charging too much interest. It turned out he was actually calling for breaking up banks in China, rather than elsewhere, but how refreshing to have a head of state calling …
Month: April 2012
JP Morgan Chase Rip and Run with State Government Help in Louisiana
New Orleans Joe Nocera starts his column in today’s New York Times with a story of running into Jamie Daemon, Chase CEO, who rhetorically asks the elevator crowd, “Why does the New York Times hate banks?” Yeah, I wish, but back to Nocera, he responds that that everyone hates banks and gives credit card collection …
Why Not Coffeehouses in Latin America to Support Cooperatives and Organizing
Miami The more we talked to coffee producer cooperatives in the Marcala and San Juancito mountains of Honduras and tried to piece together a plan to directly trade coffee to the USA and Canada and especially our own Fair Grinds Coffeehouse in New Orleans and its monthly support of our offices in Central America, the …