New Orleans The scars of slavery haven’t healed. Evidence abounds in the open wounds of blatant racism and deep-seeded, systemic discrimination towards African-Americans which manifests itself from top to bottom in our political, financial, and cultural experiences in the country that date from slavery until today, and, sadly, tomorrow. The existence of slavery and its …
Category: Ideas and Issues
The “Amazoning” of Urban Economic Development
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/CORR4443.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Amazon has spread its tentacles from books to groceries to virtually everything we touch as the premier online marketplace for America and increasing parts of the world. There seems no end to their range from drone deliveries to explorations of space to the Washington Post. …
The War on the Poor is about Hate Not Economics
New Orleans Lucky thing I don’t have the big head, or I would think the folks running the editorial pages for the Times were reading my blogs. How could it be coincidence that today, just as an example, one editorial quotes me almost exactly, and Paul Krugman, the columnist and Nobel Prize winner in economics, …