Three Agriculture Committee senators want Rostin Behnam to drop a new rule that would grant exemptions on swap trades.
deregulation
Posted inTAP
The Banks’ Latest Hit Job
Today on TAP: Hill Republicans want to oust FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg, citing sexual harassment elsewhere in the agency. The real issue is Gruenberg’s tough regulation of banks.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
One Night With Elvis and the Men Plotting to Take Back America
Fear and loathing at the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual gala
Posted inWorking in America
A Union of Their Own
How a culture of gross sexism in the airlines created America’s most militantly feminist union
Posted inEconomic Policy
Bloomberg Treats Telecom Industry-Funded Analysis as News
An op-ed about net neutrality by two Obama veterans, later reported on as news, was based on a white paper funded by two industry lobbying groups.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Banks: The Weak Spot in a Strong Recovery
The larger problem is feeble and captured regulation, resulting in multiple intra–executive branch fights.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Building Power Is Not Optional
A response to Ezra Klein, who thinks I’m wrong to suggest that coalition support is the way to political and policy success in green industrial policy
Posted inTransportation
Tesla’s ‘Self-Driving’ System Never Should Have Been Allowed on the Road
Elon Musk’s automatic driving technology seems to be roughly an order of magnitude more deadly than human drivers.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Dow’s River
On the Brazos River in Texas, one chemical company reigns supreme.