The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has proposed rules forcing a program that offers loans for energy efficiency upgrades to confirm a borrower’s ability to repay.
Lee Harris
Lee Harris is a staff writer at The American Prospect. In 2020, she co-founded New York Focus, an investigative news site on New York politics. Prior to that, she was editor of the independent newspaper at the University of Chicago.
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The Smuggest Man On Air
Goodbye for now to Tucker Carlson, who punctured the lazy pieties of the media class.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Bank Pullback Drives More Real Estate Financing to Shadow Lenders
Regional banks have been thought to be at risk from rising vacancies and lower valuations of commercial real estate, but asset managers and other non-banks are more exposed.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Rising Debt and Sickly Growth
The World Bank and IMF are asking developing countries to do more with less.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Rise of the Climate Rating Agencies
Government and the private sector rely increasingly on risk-modeling firms that claim they can zero in on exposure to climate change.
Posted inWorking in America
‘Zero Interest in Doing Business’: TSMC Snubs Phoenix Construction Workers
The building trades just won a surprise victory through the city council. But despite the hot labor market, securing manufacturing jobs is an uphill battle for organized labor.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Lawmakers Call for Investigation Into Embattled OAS Boss
After details emerged of an affair with a staffer, members of Congress want more answers from the Trumpian head of the Organization of American States.
Posted inEconomic Policy
White House Offers Climate Subsidies to Rich Allies
‘The advanced economies are closing in on themselves’
Posted inEconomic Policy
Free-Trade Deals Lite
To appease industrialized allies, the White House could undermine the delicate coalition backing domestic green manufacturing.
Posted inTAP
Unions for On-Time Construction
Today on TAP: Commerce Department urges chip-makers facing a construction labor crunch to offer child care, use union workers.