Montreal Fortune, the business magazine, ran a prominent article in their June 1st edition on Comcast with the title, “How to Lose Friends and Influence,” essentially detailing how their bully-boy ways, indifference to customers and community, and just plain arrogance had been key factors in subverting their monopoly efforts to merge with Times-Warner Cable. Having …
Category: Citizen Wealth
The Defense to Repayment for Student Loans and Debt Jubilee
New Orleans The announcement by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan that student loans will be forgiven from tens of thousands of students who attended Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit company that went belly up last month teaching many invaluable but expensive lessons in finance and apparently fraud. The action is important on many levels, but it is vital to acknowledge …
Mobile Phones May Let Us Win Remittance Justice Yet
New Orleans ACORN International and its affiliates in numerous countries have been hammering away at the cost of remittances for several years now and often all we have to show for the effort has been some dents in the wall and bruises on our foreheads. We’ve succeeded in getting legislation introduced in different provinces and …