WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03232020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Airbnb is in trouble. The Wall Street Journal reports that “bookings last week were down year-on-year around 95% in Asia, 75% in Europe – the company’s biggest market – and 50% in the US…” They added that a “report last week by Airbnb-analytics firm …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03222020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River There are so many things about the response to the coronavirus crisis that remind me of the response to Hurricane Katrina and its devastation of New Orleans and parts of the Gulf Coast. Mostly, that’s not a good thing, because the governmental response was horrifically …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03212020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River Brothers and sisters, it’s bad. Furthermore, it’s getting worse! Piled on to that, it will get much, much worse, before there’s even a hint of it getting better. A recession has a simple economic definition. Any two quarters of falling economic activity earns the title. …