New Orleans In the wake of the glancing blows from Hurricane Gustav and the mandatory evacuation of New Orleans and almost 2 million people in south Louisiana, citizens are still learning about the huge gaps in dealing with a government that is bureaucracy centered, rather than people focused. The latest fiasco that surprisingly has …
Category: Personal Writings
Pitbull Problems
New Orleans Charles Knight of the Commonwealth Institute in Boston sent this along and attached his colleague’s argument that letting the Republican’s get back in the game in this election using the energy they are taking from Governor Sarah Palin’s addition to the ticket is a problem. Worth worry and a read: Muzzling …
$200 Billion or so
New Orleans Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are the core supports for the housing mortgage markets in the United States. The tricky thing, or what Wall Street may thought was the “beauty thing,” about both of these quasi-private, quasi-public outfits, is that there was a “wink-and-nod” that even though there are shareholders, million-dollar plus …