“The next president should prohibit executive branch employees from receiving [Wall Street golden parachutes] altogether,” eight progressive organizations tell Hillary Clinton.
Regulators implementing the Community Reinvestment Act have not kept pace with innovations the banking industry uses to get out of its commitments.
Former Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan appears to have forgotten that he had the power and the responsibility to do the things he now wishes had been done.
There’s only one big rule limiting the ability of corporate executives to buy back massive amounts of their own stock and enrich themselves. But the SEC isn’t even monitoring their compliance.
If ordinary Americans in this country were allowed to do the same thing Trump's companies did, the country would be in markedly better shape economically, with a far stronger post-recession recovery.
A devastating new Reuters story chronicles how political concerns watered down the State Department’s annual report on human trafficking around the world.
Clinton tolerated golden parachutes when she ran the State Department, and two of her top aides — Robert Hormats and Thomas Nides — got them.
The lack of evidence that Malaysia has taken steps against slavery raises the possibility that the decision was made for purely political reasons.
HUD's removal of a key clause in its requirements for taxpayer-guaranteed mortgage insurance spares two banks recently convicted of federal crimes from being frozen out of the lucrative market.
CBRE, a giant real estate company partially owned by Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s husband, Richard Blum, is costing the U.S. Postal Service millions of dollars a year in lease overpayments, and its exclusive contract should be immediately canceled, the service’s inspector general has found.
This is not a paywall.
By signing up, I agree to receive emails from The Intercept and to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.