Causing a furor before it exists
Did you miss this? Republicans say they’re trying to stop the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from doing anything to jeopardize financial safety-and-soundness. Consumer advocates say that’s code language for the fear of something new in the financial world: independent oversight.
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Causing a furor before it exists
The preemptive campaign to rein in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Concern about "safety and soundness" or about the prospect of independent regulation?
Causing a furor before it exists
The preemptive campaign to rein in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Concern about "safety and soundness" or about the prospect of independent regulation?
Business leaders: give us more government
Miss this? For all the talk among “pro-business” politicians about spending and tax cuts as the formula for economic recovery, many leaders of coal, oil, agribusiness, and barge and shipping companies want Congress and the Army Corps of Engineers to get serious about maintaining and upgrading the nation’s inland and coastal waterways.
U.S. to nuclear power industry: please take our subsidies
The market has said "no," but Congress and the White House are still sweetening the pot, hoping to hear "yes."
Making patients have "skin in the game"
A health care cost-control theory’s breakthrough moment in Washington comes in the face of research documenting deep flaws in the hypothesis.
Business leaders: give us more government
Barge companies are among those asking Congress to take better care of America’s waterways. It could mean spending, and maybe even taxing.
Playing the "regulatory uncertainty" card
Claims that investment is paralyzed because businesses are uncertain as to what regulations are coming down the pike turn out not to be backed by specifics.
To comply or to defy
Eight months after Dodd-Frank, banks hope to block a provision that could eat into their debit-card swipe fees, insisting that there is no way to adapt to a world of lower fees except at heavy cost to themselves and some customers.
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