Buenos Aires Yes, I’m in Buenos Aires. The weather is overcast and cool, because it’s winter in the Southern Cone after all. I can see the impact of inflation everywhere. $3.50 for an expresso doble now, a special tourist visa for Americans and Canadians since 2009, remis from the airport now almost a third to …
Tag: ACORN
Federal Reserve Blasts Wells Fargo with Largest Ever Fine
New Orleans I may still be under a gag order on ACORN’s final settlement with Wells Fargo, but who knows at this point and who would care now. Wells Fargo was always about hard ball and hard bargaining, but when we moved after than in 2004 after settling first with Ameriquest and then Household Finance …
ACORN and Zombie Politics: Housing and Debt
New Orleans Treme is not the only Louisiana based hit on HBO. The bigger attraction set in Shreveport and neighboring communities is True Blood of course. I would have thought that ACORN was a natural for Treme, but the more I watch it, the more I realize this is a soundtrack not …