David Dayen

Three days before the Iowa caucuses, Sen. Elizabeth Warren has released what might have been her closing argument had she been a candidate in the presidential race.

Some fear that the new chief's Wall Street ties could lead to a significant rollback of an office that served as a model for the nation on financial oversight.

From 2010 to 2014, 82 percent of individual criminal referrals by federal agencies resulted in prosecutions, while corporate prosecutions from referrals only happened at a 12 percent rate.

Joshua Wright, whose term as a Republican commissioner at the FTC ended in August, has joined the antitrust practice of the law firm that represented Google before the FTC.

The incentives for corruption in the big ratings agencies were brilliantly illustrated in <em>The Big Short</em>, where Melissa Leo played an employee of Standard & Poor’s.

Gary Gensler’s attacks on Sanders seem hollow given how the Clinton campaign has been largely silent on the issue that defined Gensler's legacy: the regulation of derivatives.

The Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP, was supposed to help millions of homeowners avoid foreclosure. It didn't, and now it's set to end.

During Deborah Feinstein’s tenure there, the Federal Trade Commission has largely abandoned its attempts to block mergers.

Days after Congress stopped overpaying interest on billions the big banks paid into the Fed, the banks want to take some of their money back.

The blockbuster tax cut deal, with a 10-year cost of $889 billion and counting, proves Congress doesn’t care about the deficit as long as the right groups get the giveaways.