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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".

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No One is Stopping Banks from Ripping off Soldiers at US Bases

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice May 13, 2014 by digital

New Orleans    You find some dangerous things going along the side road on the way by Susie’s house, but I’m going to take you there with me to see some scary rip-offs of everyone, but especially soldiers and other members of the armed forces. There was a report on the top ten financial institutions that …

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Nickeled and Dimed By Both Wall Street and Main Street

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice May 3, 2014May 3, 2014 by digital

New Orleans   In the wake of the Great Recession and general financial meltdown we all like to think we’ve got our eyes peeled to all of the slick shenanigans devised by Wall Street wheeler-dealers.  With billion dollar bank settlements still regularly reported in the daily papers and with a new governmental body, the Consumer Financial Protection …

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Bad Math and Foreclosures are Twin Towers of Banking

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Foreclosure April 29, 2014 by digital

New Orleans  I know you are sick about hearing about foreclosures.  I sure am!  This has all gone on so long and so painfully, and now even the so-called settlements and cleanup of the mess is extending the tragedy.             What do we have now?   Bank of America makes an accounting error and the miscalculation …

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