New Orleans These are the days when it seems that if it weren’t for bad news, there would be no news at all. Today’s examples emerge from the swamp where we should find our saviors, the health care delivery system, its doctor priests, and its industrial hospitals. More and more I don’t just hear the …
Banks, Too Big to Fail, but Too Small to Regulate, Huh?
Biloxi Once upon a time in America, and much of the world, there was a reliable way to identify a populist. The litmus test was their view of banks. If they saw them as somewhere between a criminal enterprise and a bunch of blood suckers, then the odds were good that they were populists. If …
Discrimination is Running Rampant in Bank Lending
New Orleans One of the toughest questions I got on my road tour of six countries was essentially, “how does it feel to have to keep fighting to hold on to every victory against constant opposition,” or in other words how do we do the work when every victory involves constant struggle. My answer, most …