Big business could soon get their chance to kill the CFPB for good, thanks in part to former Obama aide William Daley.
Obama Administration
Posted inEconomic Policy
Why Obama-Era Economists Are So Mad About Student Debt Relief
It exposes their failed mortgage debt relief policies after the Great Recession.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Economic Stimulus Works
Obama’s undersized stimulus in 2009 doomed America to an economic lost decade.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Corporate Past of Jeffrey Zients
The administration’s highest-ranking COVID official built his wealth through billing practices that have been alleged as fraud, triggering hundreds of millions in fines.
Posted inPolitics
Democrats, Speak to Working-Class Discontent
It’s the one way to mobilize Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians, not just white workers.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Burying the Evidence
How the military concealed its best chance at solving its sexual assault problem
Posted inTAP
Manchin and Sinema May Be Dooming the Democrats in 2022
Today on TAP: Compelling Biden to bend to their demands weakens him and their party going into the midterms.
Posted inBooks
Lawful Carnage
Scholar Samuel Moyn and journalist Spencer Ackerman consider the inherent contradictions of the endless war on terrorism.
Posted inTAP
The Sour Grapes of Jason Furman
Today on TAP: The former Obama official sniping at Biden’s public-investment plans