The Vampire Who Beat Wells Fargo
It may indeed be a good sign that a man calling himself a vampire is more trusted than our nation’s banks. Can we set aside our differences for the economy’s sake?
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Debt Peonage Update: Making Home Unaffordable
Mortgage companies, the New York Times reports, make money by keeping people in delinquency. In this way, the minorities who were targeted for subprime loans in the first place are being exploited a second time.
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RDPulpit: No Time for Lukewarm Economic Reform
New dimensions of criminality and injustice in the world of finance are revealed every day. So why are religious progressives—who know a thing or two about revelation—still posing, equivocating, and trimming around the edges while poor people suffer at the hands of a predator elite?
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Hamlet’s Wager, or, The Ghost of Capitalism
Specters abound in the contemporary world, and they are every bit as terrifying as Hamlet’s were. Think of the invisible, ghostly threat of “terror”; think of the terrifying specter of one’s life’s savings vanished in an instant.
Read MoreThe Mouths of Babes
“They don’t sound much like experts,” the child said. And, as we watch the latest news about the banks and the government, we must sadly agree.
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