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Monetizing Regime Change

by Emma Janssen January 5, 2026January 5, 2026

It is trivially easy for administration officials to use prediction markets to bet on the policies they authorize. We may have just seen it in Venezuela.

Michael Hsu speaking at a congressional hearing

Money, Politics, and Power

Another Biden Financial Regulator Spins Through the Revolving Door

by Dylan Gyauch-Lewis and Toni Aguilar Rosenthal December 18, 2025December 19, 2025

Michael Hsu, former OCC head, has joined a VC firm backing crypto and fintech companies.

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Economic Policy

Pick Your Financial Crash

by Robert Kuttner December 9, 2025December 9, 2025

What are the risks of a financial crash in the coming year? Let us count the ways.

Economic Policy

Credit Unions Go Large and Go Rogue

by Adam Willems November 25, 2025November 25, 2025

Intended to bolster local access to lending, large credit unions today are swallowing up community banks. A Trump purge has reduced their oversight to one regulator.

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Money, Politics, and Power

Big Tech Poised to Win Immunity Shield From State AI Regulation

by David Dayen November 20, 2025November 20, 2025

The Trump administration is readying an executive order preempting constraints on AI. It could become a much more wide-ranging deregulatory tool.

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Economic Policy

Making Banking Supervision Suck Again

by Dylan Gyauch-Lewis October 31, 2025October 31, 2025

Bank supervision consists of two main prongs: risk management and compliance. On the compliance side, consumer protection laws are being enforced less than at any time since at least the Great Recession.

Money, Politics, and Power

Crypto Bros Want to Create Micro Landlords

by Whitney Curry Wimbish October 10, 2025October 14, 2025

You might expect crypto enthusiasts to look down their noses at landlording as an antiquated way to earn a fortune, not worth their time when they are busy democratizing money. But in finance, everything old is new again. “Fractional ownership” of “tokenized real estate,” the latest crypto scheme, works like this: a company sells investors […]

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Books, Arts and Culture

Brown Stage Capitalism

by Maureen Tkacik October 7, 2025October 22, 2025

Doctorow coined the term “enshittification” in 2022, though it was hardly a new phenomenon even then. In granting apps the right to wield the absurdities of intellectual property law to legally bully their users, the government emboldened tech founders to view their companies as exempt from laws and regulations.