New Orleans This may seem quaint to some people. Why in the world would I be calling out to American Indians far and wide on the Chief Organizer Blog and over the radio and other channels? A lot of reasons, though all of them start with Elouise Cobell, a Native American banker and businesswoman …
Category: Financial Justice
Bonuses, the Wolf of Wall Street, and Canadian Scammer Jesse Willms
New Orleans It’s hard not to wonder about the mixed messages of popular culture about the huge divides between rich and poor when all of the happy endings seem to go the other way for the rich, including the amoral rip-off artists and scammers. The new movie by Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall …
More on Scarcity, Slack, Bandwidth and Impact on Poor and Public Policy
New Orleans If you thought you had learned enough about the book, Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means so Much, by Sendhil Mullainathan, a Harvard economist, and Eldar Shafir, a Princeton psychologist, and the impact their work should have on public policy for the poor and the rest of us, you’re wrong, because here comes …