New Orleans In an excellent book on community building in the wake of disasters of historic proportion, A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Solnit raises a number of insightful points about what she refers to as “elite panic.” In post-Katrina New Orleans we saw this all the time, the predictions of dire consequences and the …
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Shaming Wall Street? Foreclosure Moratorium!
Boston There’s a full moon. The Saints are 11-0 and whipped the New England Patriots like a red-headed stepchild. Now the Treasury Department has announced another new strategy for dealing with foreclosures, given that nothing else has had much of a dent on the problem: shaming. I guess anything is possible these days, but what …