Intellectuals on the right are coming around to the idea that our biggest financial institutions could use a little regulation.
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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And for His Next Trick
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The Democrats’ Trump Card
Democrats threaten reconciliation in the fight over federal spending.
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Off Register
County-level officials take on big banks over irregularities in records that cost localities millions.
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A Foreclosure Problem Congress Couldn’t Ignore
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