Portland Are you kidding me? What does it take for the Treasury Department to make the foreclosure modification program to work? Well, they have to actually run the program and supervise the banks, rather than let the foxes run and guard the hen house. Seems the inspector general for TARP – the bailout program – …
Category: Financial Justice
Breastfeeding, Grandfathering, and the World to Come in New Health Care Act
Portland Talking shop with a couple of unions about the future and prospects for new organizing was interesting, but it was truly educational to listen to three of the labor lawyers (Gregory Hartman, Henry Kaplan, and Thomas Doyle) pulled together by the Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers to update us about some of …
Keeping Devils out of Details: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
New Orleans The bill was passed and in the “instant” history it looks big, so let’s be positive about all of this. There are some good things in the mess, even as other issues went unaddressed or were silenced (like putting Community Reinvestment under the new CFP Bureau!). Non-banks which escaped CRA requirements and virtually …