New Orleans Sometimes they simply protest too much, and sometimes strange bedfellows are simply bedfellows caught strangely. This would be my summary on the team being put together to in Washington to whine about some of the new mortgage lending rules that the Mortgage Bankers Association, never a group that I would pick for the …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Real Jobs for Real People in the Informal Economy
New Orleans I argued yesterday that as important as “new” industries and mass employers are in finding real employment for millions, that the days when headlines of General Motors hiring 4000 workers are going to be few and far between. What we need is localized informal workshops, training, production, marketing, and sales that can provide …
Hope for Frances Gomez and Other Foreclosure Victims
New Orleans I have often quoted a line by a former Republican OMB director that we should “never suffer from premature certainty,” and given the disaster that banks, the Treasury Department, the Bush and Obama Administrations, and the servicers have made of the housing crises and its millions of homeowner victims, I almost hesitate to …