How the Treasury has become the graveyard of progressive financial regulation
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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.
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Antitrust Should Be Used to Fight Inflation
Controlling market power is an integral tool to deal with rising costs.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Stock Market Bubble and the Regulation Paradox
Understanding the several smaller financial-market bubbles that make up the big one
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Three Great Fed Appointees, Led by Sarah Bloom Raskin
Today on TAP: Biden’s superb stream of progressive financial regulatory nominees continues.
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Reading the Inflation Numbers Wrong
Today on TAP: Will the media and the Fed stampede the economy into 1970s-style stagflation?
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Has the Federal Reserve Heard of Omicron?
Today on TAP: Raising rates when the economy is on the brink of a second pandemic recession would be lunacy.
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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.
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Biden, Oil Companies Clash Over Price-Gouging Allegations
Although the petroleum giants have a laundry list of complaints, they continue to make bank.
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What the New Sheriffs of Wall Street Can Do
Biden has empowered a crop of aggressive financial regulators. They’ll need to look beyond the banking industry and into finance’s darker corners.