Sonoma Ten years on from the Great Recession of 2008, you wonder what we learned from that crisis, and who really learned it. I mean really learned it! Here’s a couple of scary examples that I’ll share in the “misery loves company” vein: In the “who’s on first, what’s on second” vein, get this. The …
Month: August 2018
Freddie Mac, Rent Controls and Predatory Contracts
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/CORR4549.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts New Orleans Freddie Mac is the popular name for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Company. It is a government sponsored entity or GSE. It’s main purpose since 1970 has been to buy and finance mortgages on the secondary market, making in safer for banks and savings …
Coal and the Value of Human Life
New Orleans Reading about the emerging push to ease pollution controls on coal burning by the now ill-named Environmental Protection Agency which is proposing to in fact not protect the public is profoundly disturbing. The proposal from the former coal and energy lobbyist now directing the EPA is going to be something between turning any …