New Orleans The old adage that “what goes around, comes around” applies nicely to Wells Fargo, long in our experience one of the pariahs of banking and a shameless purveyor of predatory products and lending, long a target of ACORN campaigns. Recent years have seen their corrupt culture begin to catch up with the San …
Category: Financial Justice
Remembering Springfield Years Later
Springfield I haven’t been back in Springfield, Massachusetts since 2009. Driving from the airport in Hartford, nothing looked that different at 1 AM in the morning, but that’s pretty faint praise. The Basketball Hall of Fame is prominently located along the expressway. Mass Mutual Insurance company is still large enough to have its old highway …
The Absolute Poor are in America, Too
New Orleans Angus Deaton, the Nobel prize winning economist and emeritus professor from Princeton, specializes in partnership with his wife, Anne Case, also an economist at Princeton, in examining poverty and its impacts. Spoiler alert, this is not going to be a feel good report from the good news bears. In an op-ed in …