Bank Conflicts of Interest on Foreclosures and Modifications
Arizona Advocates and Action New Orleans My god, pinch me! Unbelievably the august New York Times in its editorial today has bellied up to the right side of the bar in pointing out the obvious and...
View ArticleDebit Charges and Senate Hucksters
Dodd-Frank Bill New Orleans The Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act called for the Federal Reserve to put an end to the debit card surcharge padding when that retailers were paying to banks and credit...
View ArticleWikileaks, Japan, Sea Shepherd, Australia, and Bank of America
Paul Watson takes a bullet New Orleans On the other side of the line there’s still a whining wall about Wikileaks and the end of the world as we know it (and, yes, you atavistic Neanderthals, I do...
View ArticleFederal Reserve Blasts Wells Fargo with Largest Ever Fine
Maude Hurde leadin an action against Wells Fargo years ago 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...
View ArticlePushing Back the Banks in the Wake of Occupy
Orleans Given all of the niggling around the impact of the Occupy Wall Street movement and its impact, it is worth raising some footnotes a little higher on the tally sheet where the results are...
View ArticleWells Fargo Racial Steering and Discrimination Settlement with Justice...
New Orleans The recently announced settlement between the Department of Justice and Wells Fargo Bank saw them pony up $174 Million to provide restitution to 34,000 customers because of racial...
View ArticleNew Banking Regulations, Who Needs ‘Em?
New Orleans Someone having folks over to the White House for cokes and coffee with the President doesn’t seem like much of a visit to the woodshed, but, hey, I guess a fella has to do something to...
View ArticleCounting the Votes against Larry Summers at the Federal Reserve
New Orleans Counting the votes seems to be an increasingly big challenge for President Obama and his Administration. The most well known problem today involves Syria where he can’t seem to get the...
View ArticleGood News: Wealth Up! Bad News: Not for You!
Dallas Figures released by the Federal Reserve indicate that citizen wealth by some indices is recovering almost to pre-recession levels. According to the Wall Street Journal: The net worth of U.S....
View ArticleMaking Earned Income Credits a Better Incentive for Work and Fair to the...
Peterborough In a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Princeton economist, author, and former Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Blinder made a brilliant case for Congress to actually...
View ArticleFor Banks the Party Never Stopped
Houston Seven years after the wheels started coming off the bank’s mad money train, it seems clear that settlements for mortgage abuse, which is euphemism for fraud, Dodd-Frank legislation, and...
View ArticleContracts for Deed Dominate Midwest LMI Housing Purchases
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CN09012019.mp3 New Orleans Ann Carpenter works with the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta. Her work in understanding the challenges and...
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