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SCOTUS Upholds Workplace Arbitration Contracts Barring Class Actions

May 21, 2018 Editor

From today’s New York Times: The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that companies can use arbitration clauses in employment contracts to prohibit workers from banding together to take legal action…

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Trump Undercuts Giuliani’s Comments About Payments to Stormy Daniels

May 4, 2018 Editor

From today’s New York Times: President Trump undercut his attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani on Friday, and said the former New York mayor will eventually get the facts right regarding a…

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EPA Director Scott Pruitt’s Trip to Australia Organized by Foreign Lobbyist

May 2, 2018 Editor

From today’s New York Times: A Washington consultant and onetime lobbyist for foreign governments played a central role in attempting to set up a trip to Australia by Scott Pruitt,…

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Public Servants Are Losing Their Foothold in the Middle Class

April 24, 2018 Editor

From today’s New York Times: The anxiety and seething anger that followed the disappearance of middle-income jobs in factory towns has helped reshape the American political map and topple longstanding…

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Mick Mulvaney says CFPB’s priority is ‘free markets and consumer choice’

April 11, 2018 Editor

From today’s LA Times: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau chief Mick Mulvaney told lawmakers Wednesday that the agency’s new priority is “to recognize free markets and consumer choice” and take “a…

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Some Dems ready to loosen tough bank regulations passed after financial crisis

March 6, 2018 Editor

From today’s LA Times: Before the 2008 financial crisis, BAC Community Bank in Stockton made about 100 mortgage loans a year. Now, after new regulations mandated in the Dodd-Frank Wall…

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Why the Trump-led GOP Continues to be the Party of Massive Budget Deficits

February 12, 2018 Editor

From today’s LA Times: The Trump administration proposed a spending plan on Monday that projects deficits as far as the eye can see, giving up the longtime Republican goal of…

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When Wall Street Writes Its Own Rules, It’s An Age of Unprecedented Corruption

February 9, 2018 Editor

From today’s New York Times: On July 25, 2013, a high-ranking federal law enforcement officer took a public stand against malfeasance on Wall Street. Preet Bharara, then the United States…

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Market Update: Why Rising Wages Are Scaring the Hell Out of Stock Investors

February 6, 2018 Editor

From today’s Slate Magazine: On Friday, the U.S. Department of Labor released a strong jobs report showing wages rising at their fastest rate since the Great Recession. Then, the stock…

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How Wells Fargo and Federal Reserve Struck Deal to Hold Board Accountable

February 6, 2018 Editor

From today’s New York Times: On a Thursday evening in mid-January, a group of top Wells Fargo executives sat down for dinner in an upscale surf-and-turf restaurant near the White…