A majority-vote resolution would overturn a Trump-era rule that facilitates the evasion of state interest-rate caps.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
Biden Proposes Government Actually Try to Create Broadband Competition
The broadband proposal in the American Jobs Act prioritizes allowing utilities and co-ops to provide a public option to compete with telecom monopolies. This would be a critical step.
Posted inBooks
Change Our Minds, Change the World
Two new books on the false narratives undermining public policy
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Berkeley School
In recent years, economics has grown more concerned about inequality and how to fix it. The instigators of this epochal progressive shift ply their trade at UC Berkeley.
Posted inPolitics
Will Biden Be Radical Enough?
He’s off to a great start, but decent pay and better life chances for working people will require even more drastic change.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Speculation: The Post-Pandemic National Pastime
Photos and tweets selling on the blockchain. Stock investments in companies with no product. Welcome to the new Gilded Age.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Rise of the Private Police
In South Africa, private security companies have eclipsed the police force, threatening the state’s democratic authority and replicating apartheid-era racial inequality. Is the U.S. next?
Posted inFirst 100
First 100: Biden’s Rescue Plan Is Necessary Because Inequality Masks the Economic Pain
Plus: how to negotiate the minimum wage.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Frozen: Natural Disaster, Energy Choices, and Inhuman Responses in Texas
The Lone Star State is in free fall, pointing fingers everywhere else.