New Orleans Every time we think we might be surprised at the avarice of major financial institutions, we are reminded that in the real world, there are no limits either to greed or the willingness for banks to rip off anyone available including preying on desperate, poor families. More sickening evidence was available in a …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Stockholder Spring: Finally Some Stockholder Justice for Corporate Bad Behavior
New Orleans Corporate governance and stockholder voting and input are largely boardroom jokes and swallows of hypocritical placebos used to dupe the “biscuit cookers,” what’s left of small investors, and the general public, all of which makes it nice to see some real life examples of sleeping giants stirring to action and delivering some stockholder …
Jane Jacobs Meeting Robert Moses in New Orleans
New Orleans For decades Robert Caro’s Power Broker, a biography of New York City’s parks, ports, bridges, and roads czar Robert Moses, has been required reading for community organizers interested in understanding how power works in cities. Jane Jacobs of course was the author and planning aficionado best known for her advocacy of human scale …