“The Medical Cost Reduction Act of 2017”
A set of proposed laws targets some of the worst forms of medical price gouging.
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Trump Gets Chance to Reshape CFPB
Trump will soon name a replacement for CFPB director Richard Cordray; rule-making and enforcement priorities will become more bank-friendly.
Read more...Yet Another Brexit Train Wreck – UK to Fall Outside EU Auto Approvals Regime – and It Doesn’t Even Register With Officials
Parliamentary testimony on the auto industry lifts another Brexit rock, revealing new creepy crawlies.
Read more...PG&E and the Causes of the Wine Country Fires
Maps that could have prevented the Wine Country fires are not complete because PG&E and other utilities stalled them.
Read more...The Super Wealthy Oxycontin Family Supports School Privatization With Tactics Similar to Those That Fueled the Opioid Epidemic
How the marketing model the Sackler family developed to promote OxyContin is being applied to one of their pet causes, charter schools.
Read more...Why Does the Euro Area Have Such Low Growth and High Unemployment?
Why has the Euro area not delivered on its economic promise?
Read more...More Signs Brexit Negotiations Coming Apart
More less than encouraging news on the Brexit front.
Read more...LA School Board Ready to Rumble Over Charter Schools
The LA school board is finally cracking down on charter schools’ intransigence.
Read more...How to Fight the Global Wall Street Landlords
Local activists are having some success in fighting Big Finance landlords who have become big, ruthless players in rental housing.
Read more...What the Paradise Papers Tell Us About Global Business and Political Elites
Some observations about the Paradise Papers and the big business of tax avoidance.
Read more...New Potential Credit Risk Bombs: Exotic, ‘Nonlinear’ and Private Transactions
Beware of old CDO risk re-imaged as “nonlinear finance”.
Read more...Fragmented Health System Paves Way for CVS-Aetna Merger
UserFriendly recommended this Real News Network report, in which Bill Black gives a high-level view of how structural issues contribute to America’s inflated health care costs. AARON MATÉ: It’s The Real News. I’m Aaron Maté. In what is being called the biggest merger in the history of the health insurance industry, CVS is reportedly making […]
Read more...Remember, Remember the Eighth of November: India’s War on Cash Assessed One Year Later
One year after India launched its demonetization debacle, the economy remains cash based, and Modi has yet to pay politically.
Read more...New EPA Lawsuit Policy Advances Trump’s Deregulatory Agenda
Trump deregulatory agenda advances, via agency decisions, and a new EPA lawsuit policy to stymie regulation by litigation.
Read more...RIP, CFPB Mandatory Arbitration Ban
Trump signs resolution overturning CFPB’s mandatory arbitration ban– thus killing the agency’s most pro-consumer initiative to date.
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