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58 “I’ve been to the City Hall courtroom where the mediation …”: Bob Casey, in conversation with the author, 16 Feb. 2009.
59 Judge Annette Rizzo, who has been working hard: Dan Geringer, “The Miracle of Courtroom 676: Saving Lives, One Address at a Time,” 28 Jan. 2009, www.philly.com/dailynews.
60 The foreclosure prevention program has worked: Ibid.
61 Until we do, we’ll need to rely on officials: Michael Powell, “A ‘Little Judge’ Who Rejects Foreclosures, Brooklyn Style,” 30 Aug. 2009, www.nytimes.com.
62 For example, the new law still allows promotional teaser: Max Alexander, “Credit Card Tricks and Traps,” Mar. 2010, www.readersdigest.com.
63 As Elizabeth Warren sees it: “That’s exactly …”: “Elizabeth Warren on Credit Card ‘Tricks and Traps,’ ” NOW, 2 Jan. 2009, www.pbs.org.
64 According to the new law, the credit card issuer: Max Alexander, “Credit Card Tricks and Traps,” Mar. 2010, www.readersdigest.com.
65 Because fees account for 39 percent: Ibid.
66 And the new law doesn’t prevent: Ibid.
67 Senator Bernie Sanders, whose attempts at capping: Jeff Plungis, “Senate Nears Completing Credit Card Bill, Blocks 15% Rate Cap,” 14 May 2009, www.bloomberg.com.
68 Aristotle called usury the “sordid love of gain”: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (Minneapolis: Filiquarian, 2007), 87.
69 Thomas Aquinas said it was “contrary to justice”: St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, trans. by Fathers of the English Dominican Province (London: R. T. Washburne, Ltd., 1918), 330.
70 In The Divine Comedy, Dante assigned: Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell, Purgatory, Paradise, trans. by Henry F. Cary (New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1909–14), 49.
71 Right after President Obama’s election, Rahm Emanuel famously declared: Jeff Zeleny, “Obama Weighs Quick Undoing of Bush Policy,” 9 Nov. 2010, www.nytimes.com.
72 Even Alan Greenspan, the oracle of free markets: Council on Foreign Relations, “Peter McColough Series on International Economics: The Global Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences,” transcript, 15 Oct. 2009, www.cfr.org.
73 Discussing the economic crisis, Michael Lynton: Michael Lynton, in conversation with the author, 31 Jan. 2009.
74 The answer was no. Likewise: PBS NewsHour, “Greenspan Admits ‘Flaw’ to Congress, Predicts More Economic Problems,” 23 Oct. 2008, www.pbs.org.
75 In 1967, speaking at: Robert F. Kennedy, campaign speech at University of Kansas, 18 Mar. 1967, www.jfklibrary.org.
76 As Justice Potter Stewart wrote of the Pentagon Papers: New York Times Co. v. United States, Supreme Court of the United States, No. 1873, Stewart, J., Concurring Opinion (1971).
77 The media is also addicted: Peal Time with Bill Maher, HBO, 7 Mar. 2008, www.hbo.com.
78 What if we could repurpose some of that concern: The National Center on Family Homelessness, “America’s Youngest Outcasts: State Report Card on Child Homelessness,” 2009, www.homelesschildrenamerica.org.
79 or the 51 percent of homeless children who are under the age of six: Ibid.
80 How about some attention to the 75 to 100 percent increase: Erik Eckholm, “Surge in Homeless Pupils Strains Schools,” 5 Sept. 2009, www.nytimes.com.
81 Or the 14 million American children living in poverty: Vanessa R. Wight, Michelle Chau, and Yumiko Aratani, “Who Are America’s Poor Children? The Official Story,” National Center for Children in Poverty, Jan. 2010, www.nccp.org.
82 “People work for justice …”: Paul Loeb, “ ‘Soul of a Citizen’: Stories of Impact Will Push Us to Fix the Oil Spill, Homelessness, and Other Big Problems,” 27 May 2010, www.huffingtonpost.com.
83 Tip O’Neill said, “All politics is local”: Tip O’Neill and Gary Hymel, All Politics Is Local, and Other Rules of the Game (Holbrook: Bob Adams Inc., 1994), xii.
84 The concept was simple: If enough people who had money: Colin Barr, “Big Banks Mint Money Again: $18.7 Billion,” 21 Apr. 2010, www.money.cnn.com.
85 And since deposit