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April 2012

April 03, 2012

Banks behaving badly

Matt Taibbi: "Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail" Did you hear about the plot...

March 2012

March 08, 2012

On ‘Fixing the Moral Deficit’ (part 1)

The Consumerist brings us the entertaining story of a New Mexico man who picked the...

March 06, 2012

Jubilee would help

Call it debt forgiveness, principle reduction, or restructuring, a hair-cut or a cram-down -- call...

February 2012

February 29, 2012

Banks behaving badly

Cora Currier: "Banks Colluding with Insurers to Rip Off Homeowners, Lawsuit Alleges" A federal judge...

February 23, 2012

Bank-transfer season 2012

The New Bottom Line project says "Bank Transfer Season 2012 Kicks Off in San Francisco":...

February 21, 2012

C.S. Lewis and Occupy Wall Street

Here's a bit more from David Graeber in the Boston Review: [Debt: The First 5,000...

February 20, 2012

Jubilee: Proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor

Internet Monk just celebrated "Jubilee Week: All Grace All the Time!" Jubilee is one of...

February 06, 2012

#Occupy the trailer parks

Stimulus plan: Government-backed low-interest loans for manufactured home communities to allow homeowners to purchase the...

February 06, 2012

Ross Douthat’s utopia exists, in Haiti

If only "the government" would get out of the way, then private charities could step...

February 03, 2012

Smart people saying smart things

Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson: "Biblical Economic Justice: Supply and Demand Isn't Enough" The Bible itself...

February 03, 2012

Banks behaving badly

"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining,...

January 2012

January 19, 2012

Banks behaving badly

"Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a...

January 16, 2012

Dives and Abraham: Martin Luther King Jr. demolishes Mitt Romney’s talk of ‘envy’

The Rude Pundit points us to the sermon the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered...

January 12, 2012

Mitt Romney and ‘the politics of envy’

Mitt Romney on NBC's Today show: You know, I think it’s about envy. I think...

December 2011

December 31, 2011

Empty seats and empty houses

"I'm not technically rich, but I do have a lot of [stuff] that I don't...

December 27, 2011

More smart people saying more smart things

John Hodgman, "That Is All" I know better now than ever that wealth deranges. It...

December 23, 2011

‘But we cannot have both’

Ian Ayres and Aaron S. Edlin are pushing for a Brandeis tax based on maintaining...

December 22, 2011

Grand Theft Autosigning — stealing houses is illegal, isn’t it?

Scot Paltrow: "The watchdogs that didn't bark" Four years after the banking system nearly collapsed...

December 22, 2011

The Liberation of Ebenezer Scrooge (and possible liberation of Jamie Dimon)

The Consumerist brings us the latest in a wave of recent stories about a mystery...

December 18, 2011

Congress cuts LIHEAP — because giving billions to the rich is no fun unless you also get to screw the poor

Susie Madrak notes that the shutdown deal in Congress cuts winter heating aid for low-income...

December 15, 2011

The very worst thing Nathan could imagine

Here is an alien story from another world. It's from 3,000 years ago, or what...

December 14, 2011

Subprime incentives and student loans

Let's say we arrange a private student loan, you and I. I agree to lend...

December 08, 2011

Ludwig von Mises smacks down latest religious-right talking point

Right-wing hero Ludwig von Mises approaches the Jesus of the Bible the same way that...

December 03, 2011

Chuck Colson calls himself an envious, soak-the-rich socialist

Chuck Colson's latest column -- "Killing Your Neighbor's Cow -- Income Inequality" is not the...

December 01, 2011

Banks behaving badly

Matt Stoller: "Mortgage Servicers: Getting Away with the Perfect Crime?" The bad behavior is so...

November 2011

November 15, 2011

Occupy the foreclosure crisis

The "occupation" of Zuccotti Park was not an end in itself. The Occupy movement was...

November 15, 2011

Seven initial reactions

1. When your actions are lawful, honorable and just, you perform them in the light...

November 14, 2011

The search for new ways to take our money

Banks used to take more than $36 billion a year from their customers. They just...

November 14, 2011

November 14 — a fireside chat

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nov. 14, 1937 Enforced idleness, embracing any considerable portion of our...

November 11, 2011

Protesters occupy home facing foreclosure

This is a story about a police officer and protesters organizing in the Occupy movement....