New Orleans The old man of the Duck Dynasty corn-pone show on cable television was suspended for utterly reprehensibly racist comments about African-Americans and similarly outrageous slurs against gay Americans. A big surprise for most of us is that they didn’t fire his ass. The duck man, his family, and followers are expressing surprise and …
Month: December 2013
Ocwen, the Mortgage Loan Servicer, Pays $2.2 Billion for its Mess
New Orleans I found myself shaking my head reading that Ocwen, the giant mortgage loan servicer, had finally been brought to the bar and agreed to pay out $2.2 billion for making a mess of mortgages they were servicing for all of the banks from 2009 to 2012. For the homeowners caught in the crossfire …
The Biggest International Philanthropists are Still Immigrant Families
New Orleans We are at the time of year when a lot of people try to unleash their purse strings or get right for the taxman and make some donations here and there to what NFL and Hollywood agents call “their favorite charities.” There are special sections in the big newspapers suggesting that a whole …