Monthly Archives: February 2015

A reality check on this Friday the 13th

The financial fabric of the world is in tatters. That much is clear. An appearance of liquidity to date, has been simulated through a toxic web of debt, debt derivatives, and misplaced confidence in central bank powers. This weekend a … Continue reading

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Predatory lending practices: harming not helping financial recovery

This is long overdue, predatory lending has been mercilessly preying on the working poor and other financial desperates the past few years. New regulation out of the US Financial Protection Bureau is one of many critical curtailments needed on socially … Continue reading

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FRONTLINE: ‘Being mortal’

Amid a rapidly aging global population, issues of mortality are increasingly top of mind. And as evidenced when a unanimous Supreme Court (all themselves, over age 50) struck down the criminal prohibition against assisted suicide last week in Canada, social … Continue reading

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