UK students win fight over interest debt with HSBC

From ABC News: (I’ve heavily edited this, see the original) By early August, HSBC formally began applying a 9.9 percent interest to the debts of nearly 250,000 British students. Here in the land of genteel socialism, the response was predictable: fury. But students are always angry about something. But that is counterbalanced by the fact…

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Giving USA’s 2006 fundraising report

Giving USA released their 2006 fundraising report this past week.  It’s a mixed bag for non-profits, which means you really need to read it.  Overall giving has risen by about 1% average across the board, but that losses in some areas were masked by gains in others.   I encourage you to subscribe to it and…

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John Edwards Mobile Campaign

In my opinion as a 12 year practitioner of the art and science of epolitics, one of the great new frontiers is the mobile channel.  I’m reasonable about it’s potential, as I don’t think we’re all going to suddenly migrate from PCs to our phones for web surfing.  Instead the mobile channel is going to…

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