Today on TAP: If not now, when?
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Posted inEconomic Policy
Crypto: Containing the Hydra-Headed Beast
While the Fed and the Treasury dither, this behemoth is getting too complex to contain.
Posted inEconomic Policy
What Happened, Ms. Yellen?
How the Treasury has become the graveyard of progressive financial regulation
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Distressed-Debt Hedge Funder Becomes CEO of New Development Bank
The new head of the Development Finance Corporation spent two decades at a Boston hedge fund that controlled nearly $1 billion in Puerto Rican debt.
Posted inTAP
Are Biden’s Fed Nominees in Trouble?
Today on TAP: They will all probably be confirmed, but first Sen. Ben Ray Luján needs to recover to get the Dems back to 50 votes.
Posted inTAP
Three Great Fed Appointees, Led by Sarah Bloom Raskin
Today on TAP: Biden’s superb stream of progressive financial regulatory nominees continues.
Posted inPolitics
There Is a Bully Pulpit
And thanks to the Supreme Court, Biden will need to use it.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Banks and Tech Companies Jockey for Economic Control
As banks close branches, tech giants open physical stores.
Posted inTAP
Democrats Gain Control of a Key Regulatory Agency
Today on TAP: Trump’s chair of the FDIC, outvoted on a key issue, decides to bail.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Goldman Sachs Finds No Problem With Forced Arbitration
A review conducted by the law firm that represented Jeffrey Epstein determines that Goldman blocking employee access to courts is no problem.
