New Orleans When we can muster up the attention span to read past the latest Mueller investigation activity and the Trump tantrums, we can see what Congress is doing to try to make life easier for the banks and gut Dodd-Frank requirements that force them to pay more attention in class rather than going the …
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Banks, Too Big to Fail, but Too Small to Regulate, Huh?
Biloxi Once upon a time in America, and much of the world, there was a reliable way to identify a populist. The litmus test was their view of banks. If they saw them as somewhere between a criminal enterprise and a bunch of blood suckers, then the odds were good that they were populists. If …
Attack on Community Reinvestment Latest Battle in Republicans War on the Poor
Little Rock A headline in the Wall Street Journal marked another salvo in the vicious war that the Republicans and the Trump administration has launched on low-and-moderate income and minority families across the country. This time it was not transferring tax subsidies to the rich or attempting to eviscerate their healthcare and kill them. This …