videos Wall Street and Trump are about to kill the CFPB, the only government agency that effectively polices bank scams, crimes and frauds Cory Doctorow
uk RBS deliberately crushed more than 1,000 healthy UK businesses to seize and sell their assets Cory Doctorow
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Business Trump's finance watchdog wants to make the taxpayer-funded database of crooked banks go dark Cory Doctorow
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