Archive for November, 2007
Payday Loans, Tongue out of Cheek
In response to my post about the satirical Predatory Lending Association website, yesterday an anonymous commenter wrote the following: This site you are trying to get people to take notice of is a fake! The fact that you are promoting a fake site that is complete satire makes you as bad as the scum that ...Read more.
Naomi Klein at Firedoglake
The discussion appears to be over, but earlier today Naomi Klein was fielding questions about her new book at the weekly Firedoglake book salon. What is the shock doctrine? Klein explains: I started researching the free market’s dependence on the power of shock four years ago, during the early days of the occupation of Iraq. ...Read more.
In Mississippi, Poor Lag in Hurricane Aid
This is in today’s New York Times: By LESLIE EATONPublished: November 16, 2007 GULFPORT, Miss., Nov. 14 — Like the other Gulf Coast states battered by Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi was required by Congress to spend half of its billions in federal grant money to help low-income citizens trying to recover from the storm. But so ...Read more.
Support Gulf Coast Housing Recovery Act of 2007 S. 1668
We received this from Amelie Ratliff of Mass Action for the Gulf Coast: Finally, there’s a bill in Congress that would help some of the hardest hit Katrina survivors come back home. Unfortunately, it is about to die because some members of the Senate think it’s fine for certain New Orleanians— specifically those who are ...Read more.
Online Resource of the Day
Dollars & Sense readers and supporters will find the PLA website most informative. The Predatory Lending Association mission: To help predatory lenders extract maximum profit from the working poor and retired poor with payday loans. The predatory lending industry: In the last 10 years, payday loan stores have gone from being illegal to outnumbering Starbucks™ ...Read more.
Sub-Prime Primer
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzJmTCYmo9g&hl=en&fs=1] Via Darkstar.
