WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
New Orleans The long life of this whole Epstein thing is pretty amazing. The rich, famous, and well-born keep heaving with a sigh of relief that the bullet missed them, and then the inept and incompetent Justice Department drops another cluster bomb, and all of them are ducking for cover again and some …
New Orleans The on-line headline on the op-ed page called the current dominant financial practices led by private equity and the rest of the banking world as a “grift.” Dictionaries define a grift as usually a small-time swindle. When people refer to Trump as a grifter, they are thinking of bigger scandals. The …
Mexico City If you think that the 2007-08 housing meltdown taught the government unforgettable lessons, you’re dreaming. For all the problems of Obama exacerbating the crisis by letting banks determine mortgage payers modifications, a classic fox in charge of the chicken house situation, a huge part of the problem was the real estate …