Pittsburgh When someone is elected president, they used to actually believe the words their speechwriters would scribble on the line that they were the president of all of the people in America. It is becoming clearer under the Trump Administration that even though he and the White House might parrot those words, they clearly no …
Action Groups are Also Seizing the Moment
New Orleans A chain of emails and phone calls found me walking into a late Sunday afternoon meetup at a community center in New Orleans on the edge of the French Quarter. I wasn’t there to attend the group but to visit briefly with its organizer, Beau Willimon, best known currently as the writer and …
Bad Boy Banks Running Wild While Creating Credit Desert
New Orleans Rather than learning something about proper corporate behavior in the banking meltdown they triggered with their housing securitization schemes and unwillingness to supervise mortgage brokers, the gazillion dollar bailout seems to have taught the banking establishment that they could act in all ways with impunity. As we move towards the ten year mark …