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Fifth Circuit Judge’s Participation In CFPB Late Fee Case Makes A Mockery Of Judicial Ethics

Last Friday, former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair decided to offer her two cents on the broader conversation surrounding the recent sentencing of Sam Bankman-Fried . Her takeaway from SBF’s trial and conviction on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy? We need financial literacy classes for children. 

Biden erred with his renomination of Powell, but if he gets another chance, he must choose a central bank leader dedicated to properly tackling the myriad challenges facing the Fed, which range from price stability and full employment to financial stability and climate-related financial risk.

RDP Senior Researcher Kenny Stancil joined Arnie Arnesen to discuss why Biden should pardon IRS whistleblower Charles Littlejohn.

He’s Mad That Robert Rubin’s Gang No Longer Reigns Supreme

The patent system exists to promote scientific innovation to benefit the public, not to enrich private interests regardless of the merits of their scientific contributions. Yet that is precisely what PERA and PREVAIL would do by granting Big Pharma even more sweeping government monopolies and associated price-gouging power.

We focus on the under the radar impacts of corporate control of the Fifth Circuit and Congressional Republicans.

One year after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell is obstructing the finalization of tougher capital requirements for banks — and increasing the chances of more turbulence.

Right-wing groups, including several linked to court-whisperers Leonard Leo and Charles Koch, are urging SCOTUS to ban the abortion medication mifepristone.

The Biden Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is in the process of finalizing its Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles. The standard is a little known, but massively important, part of the process necessary to push industrial progression toward a cleaner future. 

Biden can make billionaire corruption a defining issue of the 2024 presidential race.

If meteorologists could gauge the pressure of climate denial with their barometers, they’d surely have picked up on a remarkable atmospheric phenomenon over Houston, Texas. The annual confab of oil and gas industry executives known as CERAWeek—a safe place for fossil fuel aficionados guarded by exorbitant ticket prices and a no-entry policy for environmentalists—has just wrapped.