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, We don’t regularly follow all of the times that billionaires and those who want to be are investigated or charged by the US or the Security and Exchange Commission for stock dealings, but we have kept our eyes on the cases involving Gautam Adani, reportedly now the richest man in India. …
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 …