New Orleans E-mail notices over night were more interesting than usual. Staff in India welcomed newcomers on a different time zone. In St. Louis we finally were getting some “pushback” traction in the Post-Dispatch on the voter suppression campaign being run against us. Stewart Acuff, AFL-CIO Organizing Director, sent me the final copy of …
Category: Ideas and Issues
What’s Up with Housing?
New Orleans Even as the stock market sets new highs week after week, the warning lights are lit up on the problems in the housing markets. We noticed two things recently of interest in the Wall Street Journal. First, delinquencies are rising. The top markets reflecting the biggest increases in the rate of delinquency were …
Wal-Mart’s Bad Month
New Orleans October has not been the best month for our friends at Wal-Mart’s. It turns out to be hard to run the world after all. It also seems that maybe Mr. Sam’s advice to keep out of politics and hunker down in Bentonville may not have been hopelessly old school, but may have been …