New Orleans Followers of the sub-prime wars still remember the place that New Century holds in the pantheon of the companies that seemed to dominate the market as Ameriquest did at one point and Countrywide did later. They were somebody then were as recently as 2006 until a year ago when they suddenly collapsed …
Category: Personal Writings
Recover With Organizing
New Orleans A report was issued by something called the Mercatus Center, which is based in Virginia on the campus of George Mason University. This outfit is doing a 5-year study of post-Katrina recovery efforts with a team of professors and researchers they have assembled. I suspect this is a study that starts with …
Wrong Team
New Orleans Senator Hillary Clinton announced an upgrade to her anti-foreclosure plan. A quote running on the McClatchy newspapers wire and picked up in the Washington Post, Denver Post, and other papers from Bruce Dorpalen stated fairly: Bruce Dorpalen, director of housing counseling at ACORN Housing, a nonprofit mortgage counselor, welcomed Clinton’s proposals but …