New Orleans The old man of the Duck Dynasty corn-pone show on cable television was suspended for utterly reprehensibly racist comments about African-Americans and similarly outrageous slurs against gay Americans. A big surprise for most of us is that they didn’t fire his ass. The duck man, his family, and followers are expressing surprise and …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Ocwen, the Mortgage Loan Servicer, Pays $2.2 Billion for its Mess
New Orleans I found myself shaking my head reading that Ocwen, the giant mortgage loan servicer, had finally been brought to the bar and agreed to pay out $2.2 billion for making a mess of mortgages they were servicing for all of the banks from 2009 to 2012. For the homeowners caught in the crossfire …
Swiss and NWRO Have Right Ideas for Ending Poverty in Income Guarantees
New Orleans In an assessment of the “war on poverty” almost 50 years after President Lyndon Johnson sounded the battle cry, Eduardo Porter in the Times noted that the real progress has only been to move the enemy lines from 19% of the American people to 16% of the population. Part of the problem is …