The Miracle of COVID
I just left a message for a client, who hasn’t been in good touch with me all summer, urging her to reach back out to me to continue working on
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Social Distancing and Why You Need To Pay Your Mortgage
This social distancing thing is really interesting. We are seeing how being able to come into close contact with each other allows our economy to operate. It shows us how
MLK and Debt
My work has one focus- working with people in debt. With Martin Luther King Jr. day comingup, I was curious to see if he had, or how he had, addressed
A Modest Proposal (and unintended consequences . . . perhaps)
June 17, 2019 I posted on Facebook post last month about a proposed bill from Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about controlling credit card interest rates. The post generated a
About Got Debt 2.0 (the preface)
May 28, 2019 I published the first edition of Got Debt, Dispatches From the Front Lines of America’s Debt Crisis in October, 2017. At the time the economy wasn’t treading
Foreseeing Effects
First semester of law school everyone takes Torts. It’s an interesting course, rarely boring as you’re reading about some pretty gruesome medical malpractices, product liabilities, personal injuries. An important concept
The Politics of Debt
Last month we posted an article on Facebook about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The article, I think it was from the Washington Post, was a simple, concise recitation of
Black Mirror, China, and Moving On
This piece is the result of a perfect confluence of a couple of scattered news articles that flitted across my news feed over the last week and a 12:30 am
A Tale of Two RVs
There was an great article in Wired Magazine about a week ago about Amazon’s CamperForce. If you’ve never heard of it, it’s the official designation (really) for the army of
About Crumbling Foundations
There was a meeting this past Saturday I wanted to let you know about… The Connecticut Coalition Against Crumbling Basements held an open meeting at Ellington High School this past