New Orleans Talking to a friend around the campfire in Montana, he blurted out the name of a website that he said allowed you to get almost any book anywhere in print for free electronically. My buddy referred to the site as the “new Napster for books.” Napster, as most will remember, was the rage …
Month: August 2013
Going after Grameen Bank and Social Enterprises in Bangladesh
New Orleans I have sometimes been critical of the Grameen Bank, the microlending institution founded in Bangladesh, and am generally skeptical of claims that debt is an effective poverty reduction mechanism, but the efforts of the Bangladesh government to take control of the institution, seemingly to seize all of its social enterprise assets is troubling. It’s …
Congress Gone Wild with Crazy Votes on ACORN and More!
Little Rock Congress has left for a 5-week summer vacation, and this time whether they have earned it or not, they probably need the rest. Perhaps in some kind of rehab clinic or re-education camp in fact, because one vote after another in the House of Representatives in recent weeks could be clinically classified as …