Today on TAP: Following the practice of ignoring precedent, an appellate ruling seeks to destroy consumer and investor protection.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
Lessons From the Crypto Crash
Cryptocurrency, NFTs, and stablecoins are a trillion-dollar trash fire.
Posted inTransportation
Airline Abuses and Government’s Dormant Power
The Department of Transportation needs to be more aggressive in protecting consumers from price-gouging.
Posted inTAP
Better Rules for Community Reinvestment
Today on TAP: Biden’s progressive regulators act to put new muscle in an old law.
Posted inTAP
Stratospheric Airfares
Today on TAP: Rising ticket prices are another facet of inflation that has nothing to do with overheated general demand, and everything to do with industry price-gouging.
Posted inBooks
How High Energy Prices Emboldened Putin
Rupert Russell’s new book shows how the financialization of commodity prices worsens volatility and destabilizes geopolitics. It couldn’t be more timely.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The SEC Must Avoid Legitimizing Carbon Offsets
These are nothing more than financial trickery that lets polluters shirk responsibility.
Posted inVideos
⏩ China and the Supply Chain Mess
Robert Kuttner joins Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti on Breaking Points to discuss the role of China in gumming up supply chains.
Posted inVideos
⏩ How We Broke the Supply Chain
Watch the writers discuss the special issue, which investigates how outsourcing, monopolies, and just-in-time manufacturing broke our supply chains.
Posted inVideos
⏩ Shadow Banking, Dark Money, and Bad Business
Watch our writers discuss the new frontiers of deregulation and financialization as well as some strange new financial alliances.