Minneapolis The rest of us may be fighting off the recession, foreclosures, or globally just trying to afford food and fuel at any price, but the list came out the other day of the paydays for big hedge fund operators and we now may be close to a new understanding of “robber barons.” The top …
Category: Financial Justice
Help on Foreclosures
Minneapolis ACORN has been going hammer and tong with subprime companies, mortgage servicers, banks, securitizers, and everyone in between for the last 18 months. We have been Cassandra yelling about the coming doom that everyone denied until finally conceding that 3.5M households are in danger of foreclosures. The Treasury Department and the industry have …
American Idolatry
New Orleans Our friend and partner, Drummond Pike, founder and CEO of Tides, jumps into the blogosphere with both feet on a subject near and dear to many of our hearts — the rip and ruin of New Orleans. We were able to be a source here and a footnote to the tale, because …