The longtime head of the World Economic Forum resigns in disgrace. Is nothing sacred?
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Private Equity’s Do-or-Die Moment
Regulators have been cracking down on consolidation just as dealmaking dries up and investors head for the exits. Can the lords of finance find a way out?
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The Markets as Master
Trump and Musk could evade public opinion and popular outrage for a while, but the markets have brought them to heel.
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Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America’s Taxpayers
The successful IRS free tax filing program is being wound down, thanks in large part to Intuit’s copious spending in Washington.
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The Government Has Already Won the Meta Case
Mark Zuckerberg fairly obviously bought Instagram and WhatsApp to neutralize a perceived competitor. He isn’t doing that with TikTok, and the FTC’s monopolization trial is why.
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Congress Stops CFPB From Capping Overdraft Fees, Monitoring Big Tech
The two Congressional Review Act resolutions now go to President Trump.
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Bloodlust and Boozing During Trump’s Wall Street Beatdown
A day in Manhattan as markets whipsaw amid the Trump tariff debacle
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Rule by Contractor
DOGE is not about waste and efficiency—it’s about privatization.
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How Corporate Pardons Create Monopolies
Rocket wants to became the only mortgage company in America. The CFPB found its tactics to be illegal—until Donald Trump let the company off the hook.
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The Last Abundance Agenda
In the 1980s, Wall Street vowed to make housing more affordable through deregulation of housing finance. The result was the 2008 crisis.