David Dayen

Ever since Richard Nixon stifled the antitrust investigation into ITT, a major donor, White House interference in antitrust cases has been particularly verboten.

Low-wage workers who object to the Fed caring more about high-flying bankers suddenly found their hotel rooms canceled at a fancy retreat.

Hillary Clinton claims she wants to regulate shadow banking, but shadow bankers are throwing a big party at the Democratic Convention.

"You could take a drug when you're sick instead of going to the hospital," says Jim Greenwood, head of the Biotechnology Industry Organization.

Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, a leading candidate for the Democratic nominee for vice president, has spent this week signaling to the financial industry that he’ll go to bat for them.

The last-minute decision to include in the Republican platform a call to restore the firewall between commercial and investment banking comes as a surprise, because Donald Trump himself had never endorsed such a reform.

New evidence supports critique that Holder, for a combination of political, self-serving, and craven reasons, held his department back from prosecuting big banks.

Printing money is a routine occurrence for governments that control their own currency – and arguably a good idea.

They're looking for people who can "complete" chains of title that were irreparably ruptured during the securitization craze, so they can proceed with foreclosures.

The proposed rules focus on determining ability to pay the loans back. But actually enforcing underwriting standards is more difficult than enforcing specific product safety rules.