New Orleans If you’re living anywhere in the southern United States it pays to be careful before you start tut-tuting about those crazy racists over in South Carolina about flying the Confederate battle flag over their state capitol. You can read at Atlantic Flag and Pole blog to get your own flag, the exact …
Month: June 2015
Shaming the World Bank to Put its Mouth Where Its Money Is
New Orleans The World Bank, a joint financing project invariably led by an American, but amalgamating many countries resources for major, and sometimes controversial, public works and other investments in developing countries particularly, is big bucks. If you want to build a power plant, a dam, a railroad, or anything in the billions, your country’s …
The “Venmo Line” and Moving Cash More Cheaply
New Orleans We are making progress on our Remittance Justice Campaign. A federal bill has now been introduced in Canada to cap fees and other costs at 5%. Provincial bills have now been introduced in British Columbia and Ontario. Reports from Honduras indicated that there is movement in Tegucigalpa at capping the fees finally. A …