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Did Facebook’s Privacy Problems Foretell the IPO?
For anyone who plays the stock market -- and I confess I do from time to time -- the drama that unfolded over the past couple of weeks surrounding the Facebook IPO reminded me...
Hello Citizens United, Goodbye CFPB: Consequences of the Wisconsin Recall
I have watched with horror Republican efforts to emasculate, strangle and kill the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. At present, there are at least nine pieces of legislation (that we know of) snaking their...
A National Service Corps Can Solve the Student Loan Crisis
Suddenly, and finally, everywhere we turn somebody is talking about the student debt disaster. Headlines scream it. The presidential campaigns are beginning to seriously talk about it. Congress is starting to focus on it,...
Is It True About Commencement Speeches? (A Response to James Franco)
Over the past few months, in preparation for and in reflection of the commencement address I had the privilege of giving at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University on May...
Crowdsourcing the Student Loan Mess
For the record, I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the Hitler Youth. I point this out because based on the comments to my last few columns (which focused...
It’s Time to Solve the Student Loan Crisis
If you're worried about student loan debt, what it means for graduating seniors and for the future of our nation, congratulations. That means you're paying attention. Now that Americans owe over $1 trillion in...
The Other Student Loan Slow Jam: Is It Time for a National Service Corps?
If you haven't taken the time to watch Obama slow jam the news on Late Night from last week, take the time. It was a political masterstroke that so infuriated conservatives (because they're incapable...
Say Something Already! Obama and Romney’s Housing Crisis
President Obama, Governor Romney and their backers may be spending hundreds of millions of dollars to live in the most expensive and exclusive house in the nation, but they aren't saying enough about the...
Obama’s Mortgage Task Force: Working Hard or Hardly Working?
Maybe you're reading about it less and less. It doesn't seem to be the lead story on many national news broadcasts anymore. But it's still there, festering away like an untreated wound.
The foreclosure crisis...
Hacking the Federal Log Jam: One Agency at a Time
No doubt you've seen the studies that show how social networking sites hurt productivity, and I am pretty sure you've read, heard or watched countless stories about how companies have tried to solve that...