mediocre billionaires Rep Katie Porter: an Elizabeth Warren protege and single mom who destroys bumbling, mediocre rich guys in Congressional hearings Cory Doctorow
loansharks Payday lenders switched their trade show to a Trump hotel and sent Trump at least a million bucks, then he gave them carte blanche to make billions preying on poor people Cory Doctorow
academic malpractice How the payday loan industry laundered policy by paying academics to write papers that supported its positions Cory Doctorow
griftocracy Predatory lender found to have swindled veterans' pensions for eight years, so Trump's CFPB fined him $1 Cory Doctorow
mick mulvaney Trump's finance watchdog wants to make the taxpayer-funded database of crooked banks go dark Cory Doctorow
car thieves on an industrial scale Wells Fargo fined $1B for stealing cars and jacking houses Cory Doctorow
doxxing of america 32 Democratic senators demand to know if Trump's consumer finance boss has let Equifax off the hook Cory Doctorow
not on my watch Trump's Consumer Finance Protection Board chief gives up on punishing Equifax for doxing the entire United States of America Cory Doctorow
1000% apr Trump's "consumer protection bureau" will let the $50B payday lending industry gouge the poorest Americans with triple-digit interest rates Cory Doctorow
The Federal Vacancies Reform Act Trump appointed a loan-shark fixer as an assistant Attorney General, who then wrote a controversial memo justifying the neutering of the consumer finance watchdog Cory Doctorow
arm-breakers come a-cropper America's dirtiest, biggest student lender neutralized by federal watchdog Cory Doctorow
