Last week I published an article on payday loans, and the opposition to them coming from Chris Morran, a deputy editor at the Consumerist.  I also made sure to copy him on the article so he’d see it. No reply. I am not surprised, but I am disappointed.  You’d think someone who has enough time [...]

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Apparently, Regions Bank found a way to offer a payday loan for a third less than most – at $10 per hundred borrowed, as opposed to the national average of about $16. And the bank still got criticized for it to the point where they no longer offer the loans. You have to wonder exactly [...]

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So here we have Mississippi House overwhelmingly passing a law permitting payday lending in the state through 2015.   Exactly one story is published on the passage, and it’s in the Associated Press, and (big surprise) it’s a negative article. It strikes me as incredibly lazy that an AP reporter just regurgitates sentences that literally could [...]

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“A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.”  James Freeman Clarke  I suppose we all flirt with stupidity once in a while. The relationship that we should have seen was doomed from the start. The career move than wasn’t right and was made for the wrong reasons. The intemperate response [...]

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Section 66A of ITA 2008 has been one of the most abused sections of the Act in recent days. There is also a discussion about the constitutional validity of this section on  whether this section infringes on the constitutional “Right to Freedom of Expression” as provided in Article 19(1) (a) of the Constitution. The discussion [...]

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