Little Rock We continue to struggle with cable companies promising to offer affordable digital access to lower income families. Comcast, Cox, Time-Warner, and others promise, while failing to deliver in any meaningful way. The FCC claims to be engaged in the fight with us, but lumbers along ineffectively. Ironically, when the recent FCC chairman stepped …
Category: Citizen Wealth
The Drunken Race to Hook Africans on Beer
New Orleans In Nariobi the question in a bar that always made you step back and think if you ordered a beer was whether you wanted it cold or warm, meaning at room temperature. Given the state of refrigeration and the cost of electricity in the country, so many people had gotten used to drinking beer …
Perhaps Some Progress on Payday Lending Rules in USA
New Orleans Payday lenders could not operate without the collaboration of the big money center banks. They are financiers providing the dollars being lent in predatory fashion to desperate lower income families. They are also the loan collectors by facilitating drafting from borrowers’ accounts to service the loans for the payday lenders, sometimes on multiple …