Category Archives: Regulations and regulators

The OECD Penalizes Developing Countries for Trying to Tackle Tax Avoidance

How the OECD stacks the deck in favor of tax-dodging multinationals.

Definition of Madness: Spain Needs Bigger Banks, Apparently

Spain’s pending bank mergers look like an exercise in hope over experience.

America’s Hidden Water Affordability Crisis

Why water is a stealth crisis in places like Seattle and Atlanta and will become an economic and social problem for more cities soon.

EU Dings Yet Another Brexit Fantasy: “Equivalence” Deal for the City

Yet another scheme, equivalence, by which the City hope to have its Brexit cake and eat it too, looks to be a non-starter.

India’s “Bold Experiment With Cash”: Debunking Myths

India radical demonetization policy: Is this a decisive action against the black economy or an ill-considered, damagingly arbitrary act?

Fourth Federal District Court Looks Likely to Uphold Fiduciary Rule

The Department of Labor is likely to delay implementation of the fiduciary rule beyond the original April 10 compliance deadline.

EPA Failures Predate Trump: Evidence Emerges of Tropical Parasites in Rural America

EPA and other regulatory failures that predate the Trump administration have left some poor rural communities swimming in sewage.

How Companies Shape Climate Change Agenda: Thousands of Emails from Oklahoma Office of Trump EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Published

Emails document how fossil fuel interests worked with EPA head Scott Pruitt while he was Oklahoma AG to thwart climate change policies.

As US Attorney, Trump Labor Secretary Nominee Enabled Drug and Biotechnology Executives’ Impunity

Yet another Trump appointee who was soft on big business misconduct.

Ian Fraser: What the HBOS Fraud Tells Us About the State of British Banking

The £1 billion HBOS Reading fraud, my part in exposing it, and what it tells us about the state of British banking

Wolf Richter: “Seriously Delinquent” Auto Loans Surge

Auto loans are have been looking awfully bubbly….and the hangover has begun.

The CFPB’s Big Opponent, Jeb Hensarling, Rivals Trump in the “Make Stuff Up” Category

House Financial Services Committee chairman Jeb Hensarling takes his best shot at the CFPB and fails to land a single blow.

In California Farm Country, Trump’s Deportation Threat Looms Large

A closer look at America’s dependence on de facto sanctioned but nevertheless illegal farm workers,

“Civil Rights Groups” Throw Public Under the Bus on Net Neutrality for Their Big Telco Donors

How the big telcos have bought off so-called civil rights groups, who are pushing hard to end net neutrality.

Trump’s and Hensarling’s Fact-Free Attack on Dodd Frank

Debunking Republican canards about Dodd Frank.