New Orleans The bill was passed and in the “instant” history it looks big, so let’s be positive about all of this. There are some good things in the mess, even as other issues went unaddressed or were silenced (like putting Community Reinvestment under the new CFP Bureau!). Non-banks which escaped CRA requirements and virtually …
Author: wade
Debt-Beats
New Orleans Part of the digital divide crushing lower income families turns out to be the slick way that law firms and others have been exploiting the court system to harass people with credit problems and then pile on more debt, fees, and collection charges by automating the process. In the same way that bottom …
Birdseye on Citizens’ Wealth in Atlanta
Atlanta It’s not often I get something that seems like a focus group on Citizen Wealth and the issues it raises, but that’s almost exactly what I enjoyed in Atlanta in a class of 35 on the “Economics of Poverty” where as part of the required reading they had gone through my book with a …