Usury in the Water
There’s never been a better time to be a loan shark for small businesses.
A Very Bailey Farewell
Chuck Schumer’s imaginary friends come back to haunt him.
Sunburnt
How door-to-door solar salespeople can scam homeowners, and what the government could do to stop it.
Predatory Lenders in the Operating Room
Medical credit cards have gone mainstream, preying on sick people at their most vulnerable.
Beating the Press
In a time of eroding journalistic freedoms, a new book chronicles the deliberate effort to use libel law to bankrupt the independent media we have left.
The Golden Age of Scams
How Trump’s second term will unleash dishonesty and abuse across the economy
Borrowers Besieged
Student debtors are under attack on all sides. Government contractors make their life miserable, and financial predators are poised to capitalize.
Three Coin Monte
The Trump administration is removing every financial guardrail from crypto, in order to enrich the first family and its tech and finance allies while destabilizing the economy.
Pyramid Schemes Are Eating American Capitalism
Multilevel marketing companies helped produce President Trump, and he is ruining everything.
Trump’s Labor Wreckers
The president has put anti-union, anti-regulation fanatics in charge of worker safety and worker rights.
Republicans Break the Weather
The private sector can’t match the value proposition of the National Weather Service, but companies work to entice Americans to pay up anyway. What happens if they can’t?
Rocketing Toward Monopoly
Elon Musk’s control of space is even more entrenched than it seems. What dangers could that lead to?
Broken China
Trump’s China policy is a chaotic mess that harms the U.S. far more than it harms the Chinese.
Kamala Could Have Won
She was poised to claim the presidency, but Joe Biden and a disastrous campaign defeated her.
Private Equity’s Do-or-Die Moment
Regulators have been cracking down on consolidation just as dealmaking dries up and investors head for the exits. Can the lords of finance find a way out?
