Shreveport Shreveport is not a small town. There are over 200,000 who live in the city and once you look at the metropolitan area and the entire AR/LA/TX area there are a lot of people here. There is some manufacturing; there are casinos, a fair amount of warehousing along the I-20 corridor, and service industries …
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RAL Prices Dropping
New Orleans In the arcane ways that companies make millions of dollars on the edge of the predatory market from lower-income and working families, we are now hearing what a Chase executive in a conference call with ACORN yesterday called the “biggest changes in market pricing for refund anticipation loans” since the product hit …
Secretary of Wall Street, President of the Exchange
New Orleans All last week we endured the media frenzy of Henry Paulson, current of the Treasury Department and formerly of Wall Street, and President Bush, currently in charge of Iraq, but presumably now looking for a job running the Stock Exchange, trying to claim that they were jawboning the industry to provide “relief” …