New Orleans The rise of interstate banking since 1980 has led to countless consolidations as major money center banks have reduced headquarters locations and branches where customers can easily do financial business. The Wall Street Journal reported that 1700 branches closed in a one-year period highlighting a trend after acceleration up to 2009 when …
Optimism in the Face of Voter Suppression
New Orleans It is impossible to deny that there is a huge, concerted effort to suppress voters in the ostensibly democratic process of elections in the United States. Voter identification laws have proliferated more widely than fetal heartbeat bills. The blatantly racist and partisan effort to embed a citizenship question into the 2020 Census, now …
Tariff Tantrums, Undermining Trade Agreements, and the End of Checks and Balances
Louisville In recent days alone, Trump has ended protected trade status on $5 billion in goods from India, as he did earlier with Turkey, and has given Mexico until June 10th to somehow magically end illegal immigration into the US or he will hit them with a 5% tariff across the board and keep punching …