John Harrington

Growing up in rural East Texas, I thought I knew what poverty looked like -- I certainly didn't know what it cost. You don't unless you are locked in with few ways out and preyed upon by check cashers, payday lenders, pawnshops and rent-to-own bandits.

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Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) have been around for over four decades, but only recently have made it as headliners in Davos, Switzerland, the winter playground for the world's corporate, government and political leaders who meet annually to carve up the world's resources. SWFs are large pools are capital controlled by...

Al Gore, the former Vice President of the United States, and who is on the board of directors of Apple, Inc., won the Noble Peace Prize in 2007 for his book and film warning the world community of the dangers of increasing greenhouse gas emissions and overall potentially catastrophic climate...

Corporations have run amok. For evidence I refer you to the slew of major corporate scandals to have come down the pike in the past few years—Enron, WorldCom, and Halliburton (which is doing such a fine job overcharging the American taxpayer in Iraq that George Jr. awarded Halliburton a multi-million...