Mick Mulvaney’s Wells Fargo Settlement Lets the Bank Decide How Consumers Are Paid Back
Under Acting Director Mick Mulvaney, the CFPB appears to be making it harder for victims of misconduct by financial institutions to get their money back.
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David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. His latest book, “Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power,” was released in July 2020.
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Multimillionaire Democratic Candidates Locked in California Feud [Corrected and Updated]
A close look at the California district where the DCCC just backed Gil Cisneros finds a mess very much of the party’s own making.
The Facebook Worm Started to Turn Today
While senators displayed a reluctance to govern on Tuesday, the disquiet over Zuckerberg’s comments suggested that the hearing represented a beginning and not an end.
The Senate Is Afraid to Govern. That's Great News for Facebook.
A willingness to do the job of a policymaker was sorely absent throughout Tuesday’s back-and-forth with Mark Zuckerberg.
How Andrew Cuomo Failed Student Borrowers
The New York governor is touting a deal to flip a handful of senators back into the Democratic fold, but it comes after it would have mattered for student borrowers.
Public Workers Worried That Tennessee's Billionaire Governor Is Taking Another Run at Them
With the UT Focus Act, Gov. Bill Haslam of Tennessee may have found a way to privatize large numbers of state jobs.
The U.S. Government Is Finally Scrambling to Regulate Facebook
Congress is moving to appoint privacy regulators and members are readying legislation that targets the social network.
JPMorgan CEO: Banking Bill "Doesn’t Really Have Anything to Do With Us"
JPMorgan Chase lobbied on the bank bill, and the CBO says the company might benefit. CEO Jamie Dimon begs to differ.
DCCC Injects Itself Into a Third Texas Democratic Primary, This Time Going Up Against EMILY's List
The DCCC has now picked a fight with EMILY's List in Texas.
The FTC Is Powerless to Regulate Facebook Right Now. Ask Chuck Schumer Why.
There's essentially no one running the FTC at the moment, a particularly precarious situation in light of recent revelations about Cambridge Analytica.