Toronto In Toronto, the Prime Minister, Ontario and Toronto officials, and of course representatives from Alphabet, the parent company of Google, all were back slapping and hand clapping each other about Google’s subsidiary, Sidewalk Labs, winning bid to develop an 800-acre tract of land along the waterfront as a rare opportunity to put their ideas …
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Trump’s Butchering of Obamacare
New Orleans For all the pluses and minuses of any debate on the Boy Scouts, they taught me one life lesson that I wish President Trump had also learned: don’t play with knives! Looking at the way he is trying to mindlessly hack away and butcher the Affordable Care Act, there is little doubt that …
CFPB Finally Takes the Stick to Predatory Payday Lending Industry
New Orleans The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, a beleaguered federal agency much needed by consumers and much despised by the entire phalanx of Republican governmental officeholders, has released new rules for the payday lending industry. It wasn’t the full list of Christmas presents that many of us had sent the CFPB Santa Claus, but there …