By Martin Bosworth Why is this man smiling? Angelo Mozilo, the well-tanned and always smiling soon-to-be-ex-CEO of failed mortgage lender Countrywide, announced today that he would magnanimously give up his massive severance […]
By Martin Bosworth For those who don’t know, last week President Bush and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson unveiled a “mortgage rescue plan” (NOT a bailout, they desperately stressed) that would enable qualifying […]
By Martin Bosworth One of my first big battles as a consumer advocate was campaigning against the 2005 bankruptcy bill overhaul, which sadly passed despite all our best efforts. Looking back, I […]
This weekend George Bush did something so out-of-character that it seems impossible to believe–he signed into law new legislation that will actually benefit the American people. Specifically new laws that overhaul the […]
