by Dave Johnson | Sep 29, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The candidates discussed "trade" for a few minutes during the first presidential debate on Monday. Once again the opportunity for a meaningful dialogue on an important issue slipped away. Where do we go from here? That was the subject of a teleconference Wednesday...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 26, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
You saw what happened recently with Wells Fargo. They scammed some of their customers some of the time. Payday lending is about scamming all of the customers all of the time. At Ourfuture.org, we have long been warning about and exposing the payday lending debt-trap...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 22, 2016 | Blog
Everyone has an opinion on what Hillary Clinton should do in the Monday's debate, and this is mine. Hopefully I will be wrong enough to earn a regular column on the New York Times op-ed page. This election season so far has been about Donald Trump, and not about the...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 22, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen was forced to testify on Wednesday before a Republican impeachment committee. Republicans are doing this because the IRS (under a previous commissioner) dared to check whether organizations applying for special IRS nonprofit status were...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 20, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
The manager instructed her to push accounts but not to tell the customers about the downfalls and fees of new accounts. "Make them read the paperwork." She replied, "But you know no one ever reads the paperwork." His response: "Exactly." You might have heard that...
