finance Sanders and AOC team up for an anti-loansharking bill that will replace payday lenders with post-office banking Cory Doctorow

usps The USPS is testing out becoming a bank, and it's about damn time. Thom Dunn

Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow

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

Business Pangea raised $180m to buy up low-rent Chicago properties "to help poor people," and then created the most brutally efficient eviction mill in Chicago history Cory Doctorow

Business China's "pawn shops" have loaned $43B, mostly secured by real-estate Cory Doctorow

transparency How the payday loan industry laundered policy by paying academics to write papers that supported its positions Cory Doctorow

Business US governmental requests for comment are routinely flooded by pro-corporate bots Cory Doctorow

Business Wells Fargo fined $1B for stealing cars and jacking houses Cory Doctorow

finance American banks' secret subprime exposure stretches into the billions 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

youtube Wall Street and Trump are about to kill the CFPB, the only government agency that effectively polices bank scams, crimes and frauds Cory Doctorow

Business Senate Democrat is about to take the brakes off predatory payday lenders Cory Doctorow

class war Support the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's action against predatory payday lenders Cory Doctorow

politics The Democratic Party's SOPA-loving, Snowden-hating, Hillary-partisan power-broker has her first-ever primary challenger Cory Doctorow