Category Archives: Regulations and regulators

Stablecoins Could Crash Our Economy

Finance loves to dress old risks in new language and call them innovation.

Financial Times Study, Finding Blacks Twice as Likely as Whites to Have Mortgage Applications Rejected, Reignites Debate Over Discrimination

A Financial Times study stirs the pot with a new analysis: blacks and other out groups still face considerable discrmination in lending

Trump Floats Idea of Declaring Housing Emergency: Another Self-Sabotage Operation?

Quelle surprise! The Scott Bessent announcement of a possible Trump housing emergency made it sound like a stunt, not a plan.

U.S. Utilities Put in a No-Win Position by Phantom Data Centers

AI players are gaming utilities, and creating high odd of bad outcomes for other customers, by making duplicate orders for power.

Fed Governor Lisa Cook v. Trump: “That Mortgage Document Doesn’t Say What You Think It Says”

More on the holes in the Trump allegations that Fed governor Lisa Cook committed mortgage fraud.

Trump’s Impact on the Financial Sector and Global Dollar System

A wide-ranging review of how unccordinated Trump policies undermine the dollar and the international banking system, and even each other.

Satyajit Das: Weakening Bank Regulations Will Make the Next Financial Crisis Worse

Pressured by banks, US and European officials are loosening regulations to prevent another 2008 which will have predictable consequences

The New Currency War: US Stablecoin-China Digital Yuan Rivalry as a Test of Monetary Discipline

How the US stablecoin/digital yuan arms race creates instability risks and undermines monetary sovereignity around the world.

FTC Has Long Said Products Must Back Up Health Claims. A MAHA Lawsuit Would Upend That.

An important legal battle looms about dietary supplement companies being able to make health claims when they lack clinical trial evidence

Health Insurance Price Increases Should Cause Americans More Alarm

An article that usefully documents the magnitude of health insurance price increases nevertheless blames the victims.

New Senate Report Details How Private Equity ‘Devastates’ Hospital Systems

A new report detials the impact of hospital system looting by private equity, here executed by Leonard Greene at Prospect Medical Holdings.

Autism Fabulist RFK, Jr. Shuts Down Research Into Possible Environmental Causes Even as He Escalated Broad-Based Attack Against Vaccines.

More on RFK, Jr.’s hypocrisy.

Tucker Slams Predatory Buy Now, Pay Later Loans as the Economist Celebrates This New Debt Slavery Device

A relatively new financial product, buy now pay later loans, is deepening the misery of already over-extended Americans, especially Gen Z

Is Price Fixing Protected by the First Amendment?

RealPage continues ugly post-Citizens United trend, and provides more evidence that the Democrat Abundance enthusiasts are full of hot air.