New Orleans Jacob Lew, the US Treasure Secretary, standing with his partners, including Bill Gates representing the Gates Foundation, announced a public-private partnership that would include Treasury, Gates, JP Morgan Chase, PayPal, and others in trying to bring financial services to the “unbanked.” Lew indicated that globally 2 billion people relied on cash and that …
Month: December 2015
What’s Up with Podcasts? Is There a Danger in Making the Story of Guatemala Too Simple?
New Orleans I’m a techno-peasant when it comes to podcasts. I had thought somehow I could get them automatically on an iPod, and that still may be true, but somehow I had almost figured it out several years ago, lost the iPod, and then was somewhere between “don’t remember” and “don’t care” when I was …
Big Bad Corporations Get to Rip and Run on Settlements and Taxes
Little Rock When we read the headlines on the big settlements wrung from corporate baddies for egregious conduct like banks stealing peoples’ homes, plants polluting entire city water systems, or oil companies negligently polluting something as immense as the Gulf of Mexico, we see that they are paying billions and billions of dollars to make …