Warren’s creative breakthrough against corporate scofflaws
David Dayen
David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. He is the author of Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power and Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud. He co-hosts the podcast Organized Money with Matt Stoller.
He can be reached on Signal at ddayen.90.
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Trump’s Damaged NAFTA Deal
It looks like the post-NAFTA accord is going down. What then?
Posted inEconomic Policy
Congress’s New Progressives Take On the Banks
The House Financial Services Committee—long a landing place for pro-bank Democrats—now includes AOC and a flock of leftists. And Maxine Waters is its new chair.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Democracy Needs the National Popular Vote
Want to force presidential candidates to build a real, nationwide base of support? Then ditch the Electoral College.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Beto and Friends
The blank slate that is Beto O’Rourke looks good to a Wall Street vulture capitalist.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Best Part of Medicare for All That You Haven’t Heard About
Hint: It’s immensely more cost-effective than private insurance or even the Affordable Care Act.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
California’s Bullet Train Goes Off the Rails
Governor Gavin Newsom decides to slow down what could have been one of the country’s most transformative transportation infrastructure projects.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer’s Surprising Collaboration — and Weird Proposal — on Stock Buybacks
Sanders and Schumer target buybacks as a way to leak corporate profits to investors. But their solution is an unnecessary Rube Goldberg contraption.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Trump Appointee Delivering a Jackpot for Hedge Funds
Joseph Otting, as an acting overseer of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, sets in motion a plan to overhaul the housing finance system, which would enrich wealthy investors.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The New Economic Concentration
The competition that justifies capitalism is being destroyed—by capitalists.
