New Orleans I have sometimes been critical of the Grameen Bank, the microlending institution founded in Bangladesh, and am generally skeptical of claims that debt is an effective poverty reduction mechanism, but the efforts of the Bangladesh government to take control of the institution, seemingly to seize all of its social enterprise assets is troubling. It’s …
Category: Ideas and Issues
More Evidence on Why Athletes – and the Rest of us — Need Unions
Little Rock Being off-the-grid for a while, it’s surprising how little you miss reading the sports page in July. I once had a friend who took a vow to not read the sports pages simply to open up more time in his life. I can’t do that because some of the best and most honest …
Banks Creating Unbanked Millions
Little Rock I hate to say “I told you so,” but of course, I in fact did tell you so, when I recently warned that banks for any reason or no reason at all can refuse to continue to allow you to have a checking account or bounce you out of their customer line. A …