New Orleans In some ways we all eventually come to grips with the fact that we are a “product of our raising,” as the expression down here goes and in the case of personal real estate and personal debts, I was my father’s son: conservative! When he retired after 38 years with an oil company, …
Category: Financial Justice
Wrong Reasons, Right Move
Helena Coming back on the grid for a day, you go through your email, answer the urgent calls, see what’s tweeting, hit the Facebook, and scan through the headlines in the New York Times and other papers to see what’s up. The last is the least rewarding task sometimes. An irresistible headline jumps up on …
Bank of America’s Countrywide Mess Continues
Sheridan I’ll be honest. I may be missing some of the news, since I’m spending the daylight hours pulling a post-Katrina trailer to Montana, but can it really be possible that a $624 million dollar settlement on yet more of the Countrywide fiascos has literally attracted virtually zero notice in the news? This $624 Million …