New Orleans In the wake of the Great Recession and general financial meltdown we all like to think we’ve got our eyes peeled to all of the slick shenanigans devised by Wall Street wheeler-dealers. With billion dollar bank settlements still regularly reported in the daily papers and with a new governmental body, the Consumer Financial Protection …
Month: May 2014
May Day in Memphis, Istanbul, and Bengaluru
New Orleans The first May Day in the United States saw 300,000 people hit the streets in solidarity with the issues of workers. Fast forward to 2014 and there was not a single note in any of the local papers I read daily or the national ones about any notion of May Day even existing …
FCC Needs to Stop Bluffing and Make Internet a Public Utility
New Orleans I get the sinking feeling that FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, the former industry lobbyist and trade association leader, is all bluff and no brass. First, he leaks his new rules that clearly will end “net neutrality” by creating a two-tiered cost structure on speeds for internet access on the so-called “last mile” …