New Orleans Refund Anticipation Loans or RALs are a product that have preyed on lower income worker families since their inception and promotion by the big tax preparers, H&R Block, Jackson-Hewitt, and Liberty, as well as smaller fry who could get access to credit. Negotiating with these companies could get depressing when I worked with …
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Banks Muscling Out Critics on Accounts
New Orleans The New York Times zinged out a righteous editorial today to my shock and awe about the fact that something should mitigate the arbitrary and capricious power of banks to unilaterally determine whose business they will take and whose they will not take. In this case they were talking about the way …
Wikileaks and the Christmas Spirit
New Orleans Merry Christmas! Having said that, here’s a story about the Christmas spirit of giving, though perhaps with a twist, turn, and surprise in the direction of Wikileaks. Yesterday I posted a Wall Street Journal article on the increasing expenditures by Wiklileaks, which contrary to the impact they have had on the global scene …