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
Business Blood testing giant Quest Diagnostics lost 12,000,000 patients' personal, financial and medical data Cory Doctorow
finance Chase credit cards quietly reintroduce the binding arbitration clauses they were forced to eliminate a decade ago Cory Doctorow
Business For the first time since the 70s, New York State is set to enshrine sweeping tenants' protections Cory Doctorow
Business Real estate title insurance company exposed 885,000,000 customers' records, going back 16 years: bank statements, drivers' licenses, SSNs, and tax records Cory Doctorow
finance Comcast fights shareholder call for lobbying transparency, saying that it would be "burdensome" to reveal how much it spends lobbying states Cory Doctorow
politics Trump got millions in 2018 from small Florida bank whose CEO got a Federal Reserve post months later Xeni Jardin
Business Jury awards $2b to California couple who say Bayer's Roundup weedkiller gave them cancer Cory Doctorow
finance Sanders and AOC team up for an anti-loansharking bill that will replace payday lenders with post-office banking Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Buried in Uber's IPO, an aggressive plan to destroy all public transit Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Chase's idiotic poverty-shaming "inspirational" tweet, and Twitter users' magnificent responses thereto Cory Doctorow
Business The Boston Globe on breaking up Big Tech falls into the trap of tech exceptionalism Cory Doctorow
class war How hedge funds, Goldman Sachs, and corrupt executives used Gymboree's chaotic bankruptcy to cash out while destroying the careers of loyal employees Cory Doctorow
finance AOC grills Equifax CEO: the Congressional record now contains the obvious, infuriating truth that everyone else already knew Cory Doctorow
transparency How the payday loan industry laundered policy by paying academics to write papers that supported its positions Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism France fines UBS €3.7b for helping rich French residents launder more than €10b Cory Doctorow
corruption Bank lobbyists are scared to meet with AOC because she might humiliate them on Twitter later Cory Doctorow
finance The rent is too damned high because money-laundering oligarchs bought all the real-estate to clean their oil money Cory Doctorow
