This will be primarily an audio blog post this time. You never know what is going to come back around for you in life. I went to elementary and junior high school with some great people, and the friendships continue all these years later. One of them was Steve Fischmann, who went on to UCLA business school, a management career at Levi Strauss, and four years as a New Mexico State Senator. He now works on a variety of projects including a weekly radio program out of Las Cruces that discusses local issues that seem to pop up pretty much everywhere.
One of the interests Steve and I share is trying to help people free themselves from the trap of payday, car title, and tax refund anticipation loans, as well as other predatory lending practices. I'm as excited as anyone to see businesses succeed, in fact I've made a career out of helping people turn their business dreams into reality. But ... as with any right, one's right to operate a business is limited by one's responsibility to not hurt the rights and opportunities of others. These loans can be as addictive as any substance, as I have learned from hard experience over my 35 year career, as well as from life in general.
Steve did an hour segment of his radio show on this topic today. His guest for the full day was
