Could Ethics Be The Missing Key Ingredient In the Collections Industry...
I posed a provocative question to fellow members of my industry – collection agencies and bad debt purchasers and their clients and original creditors. If you aren’t already aware, the “bill collector”...
View ArticleThank You – Ernie Paniccioli – The Rest of the “Red Alarm Clock” Story
A video going viral, http://bit.ly/rmGr8a, features the voice and thoughts of American Indian famed Hip-Hop photographer “Brother Ernie” is almost as interesting as the man himself and how this video...
View ArticleFrom Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.
How the Working Poor Became Big Business and Tempted The Collections Industry UPDATE 10-24-11. When I first posted this piece, my intent was to feature and support the author, Gary Rivlin, in getting...
View ArticleRaising a Goat Together – Obama and Boehner – A Modest Solution to Generating...
You likely have not heard of the healing properties of the “goat exchange” as practiced for reconciliation purposes in Africa. It is more likely that you have heard of the ferocious enmity between the...
View ArticleOccupy Wall Street
Russell Simmons – One “Occupy Wall Street” Person the Cops Won’t Pepper Spray I confess, he could be as compelling a target as the young female protestors they penned in with orange netting traps and...
View ArticleA Cause to Support – the Collections Industry Needs To Occupy Wall Street!
I know, I know, I’m asking my brothers and sisters in the collections industry to get into the game a bit late, but this may be a singular chance to not only get deservedly positive press but to get...
View ArticleA Bite of the (Big) Apple = Banishment from the (Liberty) Garden?
Steven Piccarrillo - Multi-tour veteran of our wars in the Middle East. Unemployed father of four, and another on the way. INJUSTICE DELAYED. 10-14-2011: What would have to be acknowledged as a clear...
View ArticleTo the Grave & Beyond – Debt Collection and the Deceased
The only sure thing in life, we are told, is death and taxes. That needs to be more correctly restated as death, taxes and the bill collector. In prior blogs and radio interviews I have entertained a...
View ArticleMic Check! Mic Check! Jamie Dimon – Can You Hear Me Now?
It had to happen. The Revolution had to come home. The unquenched coals that remained of Occupy Wall Street and Zuccotti Park was destined to search out the dry tinder of community disgust and outrage...
View ArticleMayday! Mayday! Mayday! Bankers Panic Over May Day Celebrations
“Mayday,” which is used as a distress signal and derives from the French “m’aider (“come help me”), is being given new meaning by Wall Street and its Bankers in response to the upcoming “May Day”...
View ArticleFix Our Broken Money System, Achieve Justice, Avoid Austerity, Reduce Debt,...
Well, it may take more than one afternoon, but the upcoming Sunday, May 12, Fixing Our Money System forum which will run from 1-5 p.m. at Coopers Union in New York City will be a good start. Its...
View ArticleGuilty of Giving! – And We Need Your Tweets and Posts on Wednesday, June 11...
How many times have we been approached to contribute to a “worthy cause” only to learn that – however desperate the need – not a lot of our donations reached the recipients. What we aren’t told when...
View ArticleWarren Buffett’s Son, “Conscience Laundering,” and Occupy Wall Street
On Saturday, July 27, Peter Buffett, son of billionaire Warren Buffett and chairman of the NoVo Foundation, wrote a brilliant Op-Ed piece in the New York Times. With this, he also became an instant...
View ArticleOccupy’s Puppets – Tweaking the Noses of the Trans-Pacific Partnership!
Methinks there is something good afoot. Or, “a-string,” as it were. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – and the government and business interests behind a trade deal to be fast tracked into law in...
View ArticleWall Street’s Two Least Favorite Birthdays: OWS and Everett Stern (Everett Who?)
You can be sure that TBTF (Too Big To Fail) Bankers will not be donning party hats when these two birthdays roll around: that of Occupy Wall Street on Sept. 17, 2013 when it turns two, and Everett...
View Article“A Line in the Park” – An Occupy Invite and Plea to Prospective NYC Mayor,...
Well, the tide is flowing in your favor, Bill. Willy Thompson has conceded, and only one lonely Republican stands between you and Gracie Mansion. And, such press coverage! News articles describe...
View ArticleWhat’s In a Name? Would You Trade Yours for Money? For Blood Money?
On a sunshine-bright day in late September in front of a cold stone building in NYC, that question was asked of Stephen Feinberg, CEO of Cerberus Capital Management – the firm that owns a commanding...
View ArticleOccupy Eats its Own – Over an Iconic Poster
In a recent article published at OccupyWallStreet.Net, (informally known as “Street.Net”), the authors pulled no punches in excoriating the members of a separate Occupy-related group called the Occupy...
View ArticleToday, And From This Day Forward, We Are Fighting Back
This WrittenOffAmerica website is proud to be among the thousands of websites today who, in majestic union, declare “NO” to mass surveillance. We’ll go several steps further – “NO” to any...
View ArticleA Wave of Action – Or a Wave Goodbye? It’s Occupy’s Call
What will prove to be either the last gasp of the Occupy Movement, or its Renaissance as a social powerhouse, will lie in the success and its embrace of a highly-publicized #WaveOfAction which...
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