St. Petersburg The ACORN committee, including Aaron Pridgin, a national board member from Florida, and Gloria Sweiringa, a national board member from Maryland, had met for hours with the management team from Ocwen Financial Services in their West Palm Beach offices. Looking under the hood, they were nowhere near as bad as we …
Category: Financial Justice
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West Palm Beach Microfinance has inspired great enthusiasm and interest in many quarters. It is a strategy that marshals resources in hard to finance areas at a time where private solutions seem to constantly trump real programs. The jury is still out. I have reservations partly because it is hard to figure how poverty …
Subprime Candidate Investments
New Orleans I’m getting jaded. It had to happen sooner or later I suppose. I knew I was in trouble for my soul when I read the great Christopher Cooper’s piece in the Wall Street Journal about contributions from the sub-primes to Obama and Clinton and my first thought was that the contributions were …