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I have written three times before about the supposed settlement between the federal government and black farmers. The first time I only mentioned it; the second time, about a month later, I reported that they still hadn’t been paid because Congress hadn’t passed a bill approving the payments. The last time I wrote about it, [...]

Over the last 3 years there have been a lot of foreclosures across the United States. Some states have been decimated by this, and it’s taken the housing industry down as well. I have stated many times in many places that I believe the banks caused this problem; now it seems I may finally be [...]

When Malcolm X talked about chickens coming home to roost, he certainly should have been talking about banking. Bank of America must be feeling like the chickens came and stomped on their heads. They announced earlier this morning that they lost $7.65 billion in the third quarter and, of all things, blamed it on the [...]

CVS is the nation’s leading retail pharmacy chain. It’s also taken a lot of hits recently that has injured its stock price and given them publicity I’m sure they don’t like. It started out with their receiving notice from the FDA that they were making false claims about their mouthwash helping to prevent plaque and [...]

By now, everyone knows the economy is in trouble. If most of you are paying attention, you know that where you live is probably going to be in trouble as well. There are many reasons for this, and we might as well look at some of them because this isn’t going to be pretty. Let’s [...]

It doesn’t seem to pay to be Wells Fargo these days. Just a couple of months after losing a court case involving some sneaky way they were calculating overdraft fees, on Wednesday it was announced that they’re going to be forgiving around $772 million in home loans for around 8,700 people, and at the same [...]

There are two young adults who I got to hold as babies, and since I don’t have any children I’ve kind of adopted both of them as my kids. They’re sisters as well and their father is one of my best and oldest friends, so it all works out just fine. Since they’re older, what [...]