Silver Springs We are at the time of the year when finally some minimum wage workers get a raise. Praise be! This is the last scheduled increase since the 2007 amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act. For those of you who can’t remember, here’s a reminder from the DOL website: The 2007 amendments increased …
Author: wade
Foreclosure Mods Farce
New Orleans The scorecard is finally being written on the ballyhooed, though mostly baloney, loan modifications being done by big home mortgage loan servicers and trumpeted by the federal government (and largest shareholder in many of these outfits) as a real plan for foreclosure relief, and it stinks. Gretchen Morgenson in a searing Times column …
Learning the Book Biz
New Orleans This book thing is a trip! Every time I turn around I’m getting slapped up the face by the learning curve. It’s not easy to write a book or get one published, so I’m not complaining, just explaining. But, it also turns out that in this brave new, internet dominated world, it’s also …