politics 'We are desperate — we need more immigrants.' Mick Mulvaney, Trump's Office of Management and Budget chief Xeni Jardin
Business Trump's finance watchdog wants to make the taxpayer-funded database of crooked banks go dark Cory Doctorow
politics 32 Democratic senators demand to know if Trump's consumer finance boss has let Equifax off the hook Cory Doctorow
trumpism Trump's Consumer Finance Protection Board chief gives up on punishing Equifax for doxing the entire United States of America Cory Doctorow
class war Trump's "consumer protection bureau" will let the $50B payday lending industry gouge the poorest Americans with triple-digit interest rates Cory Doctorow
politics New Bolton book bombshell: Earlier allegation of Trump in Ukraine pressure campaign Xeni Jardin
politics White House admits denying aid to Ukraine unless it "investigated" Democrats: "Get over it" Rob Beschizza
corruption 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
transparency How the payday loan industry laundered policy by paying academics to write papers that supported its positions Cory Doctorow
trumpism Predatory lender found to have swindled veterans' pensions for eight years, so Trump's CFPB fined him $1 Cory Doctorow
surveillance It could happen here: How China's social credit system demonstrates the future of social control in smart cities Cory Doctorow
trumpism 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
