The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act passage in 2010 was a legislative response to the financial crisis of 2007–08 and the subsequent Great Recession. The CFPB in…

…a storm. This time, the dollar and government bonds fell in value, which to Wall Street is quite ominous. This week, the drama continued. First, the White House issued a…

…benefits, as the Wall Street Journal noted two months ago, have been met with cheers on Wall Street. Two of the largest providers – Humana and CVS, which operates Aetna – saw…

…and C. Ryan Barber of the Wall Street Journal reported that the whistleblower complaint of last May involved another country’s interception of a conversation between two foreign nationals who were discussing Trump’s…

…Bob Swern at Daily Kos who linked to a post by Pam Martens at Wall Street on Parade comes a bit of transcript from the confirmation hearing for Mary Jo…

…for The Wall Street Journal argues that “[a] ruling in Schuette that promotes race-neutral strategies to boost minority admissions would reinforce the message the court tried to deliver last term…

…definitions of key words in the legislation, and therefore the law’s potential for elastic use, is to thwart internal domestic movements that threaten the corporate state. Like Occupy Wall Street….

From Robert Reich on Sandy Weill: If any single person is responsible for Wall Street banks becoming too big to fail it’s Sandy Weill. In 1998 he created the financial…

Wired offers pictures of tricked out electric vehicles. Muscle car readers age 80 86 years old! You know who you are….

rdan Jeff Sharlet and The Family from a Salon post: Today’s roll call is just as impressive: Men under the Family’s religio-political counsel include, in addition to Ensign, Coburn and…