finance Advice for people defrauded by Wells Fargo Cory Doctorow

finance Rep Katie Porter: an Elizabeth Warren protege and single mom who destroys bumbling, mediocre rich guys in Congressional hearings Cory Doctorow

elections Bernie Sanders promises to zero out all US medical debt and end medical bankruptcies Cory Doctorow

elections Elizabeth Warren's banking proposals are designed to demolish the private equity sector and force finance to serve the people Cory Doctorow

Business Equifax settles with FTC, CFPB, states, and consumer class actions for $700m Cory Doctorow

corruption Payday lenders switched their trade show to a Trump hotel and sent Trump at least a million bucks, then he gave them carte blanche to make billions preying on poor people Cory Doctorow

scams FTC fines four robocallers behind “billions” of US calls Xeni Jardin

transparency How the payday loan industry laundered policy by paying academics to write papers that supported its positions Cory Doctorow

predatory health care Over 500,000 US families go bankrupt from medical bills every year Mark Frauenfelder

trumpism Predatory lender found to have swindled veterans' pensions for eight years, so Trump's CFPB fined him $1 Cory Doctorow

News FCC closed due to government shutdown, Ajit Pai won't be at CES Xeni Jardin

a fox for every henhouse Top FTC official is so such a corporate shill that he has conflicts of interest for 100 companies, including Equifax and Facebook Cory Doctorow

politics Sheryl Sandberg ordered Facebook staff to investigate George Soros after he gave THIS speech (READ IT) Xeni Jardin

Business US governmental requests for comment are routinely flooded by pro-corporate bots Cory Doctorow

Business Trump's finance watchdog wants to make the taxpayer-funded database of crooked banks go dark Cory Doctorow

Business Wells Fargo fined $1B for stealing cars and jacking houses Cory Doctorow

Business Gary Cohn served Donald Trump for 14 months, and made billions for his old bosses at Goldman Sachs Cory Doctorow

politics 32 Democratic senators demand to know if Trump's consumer finance boss has let Equifax off the hook Cory Doctorow

trumpism Trump's Consumer Finance Protection Board chief gives up on punishing Equifax for doxing the entire United States of America Cory Doctorow

class war Trump's "consumer protection bureau" will let the $50B payday lending industry gouge the poorest Americans with triple-digit interest rates Cory Doctorow