If immigration reform passes, immigrants will potentially be forced to navigate a landscape filled not only with un-scrupulous legal advisers but with predatory financial service providers as well. That’s because any final legislation will likely include requirements that undocumented immigrants pay stiff penalties and back taxes before they can get legal status. The Senate’s Gang […]
financial services
Posted inMarch/April 2013
He Who Makes the Rules
Barack Obama’s biggest second-term challenge isn’ guns or immigration. It’s saving his biggest first-term achievements, like the Dodd-Frank law, from being dismembered by lobbyists and conservative jurists in the shadowy, Byzantine rule-making process.
Posted inJuly/August 2012
Too Important to Fail
Predatory lending still poses a systemic risk to the economy. Will Obama’s new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau succeed in taming it, or will the agency be strangled in its crib?
Posted inJanuary/February 2012, Magazine, Politics
Financial Regulation
Back to the good ol’ days of 2008.
Posted inEconomy, Government, Health Care, Magazine, November/December 2011
Shovel-Ready Clinics
A job creation idea so obviously good even Washington couldn’t possibly say no… could it?
