Buenos Aires Yes, I’m in Buenos Aires. The weather is overcast and cool, because it’s winter in the Southern Cone after all. I can see the impact of inflation everywhere. $3.50 for an expresso doble now, a special tourist visa for Americans and Canadians since 2009, remis from the airport now almost a third to …
Category: ACORN
The Delusion of James O’Keefe
Missoula Coming off the grid to read a long profile piece of James O’Keefe III in the New York Times is not anyone’s idea of good times in my book. Kind of amazing to see self-delusion flaunted so flatly. According to the article, Saul Alinksy, the great community organizer, is one of his influences, he …
Federal Reserve Blasts Wells Fargo with Largest Ever Fine
New Orleans I may still be under a gag order on ACORN’s final settlement with Wells Fargo, but who knows at this point and who would care now. Wells Fargo was always about hard ball and hard bargaining, but when we moved after than in 2004 after settling first with Ameriquest and then Household Finance …