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Trump Pardons Junk Bond King After Wealthy Supporters Give Nearly $40 Million To Campaign Effort And Inauguration
Michael Milken’s pardon was publicly backed by a variety of wealthy Trump friends and associates that have collectively funded Donald Trump’s campaign and inauguration to the tune of nearly $40 million.
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ICYMI: Shelton’s Fellow Nominee Won’t Even Say If He’d Hire Her
Shelton apparently didn’t just fail to assuage concerns from a growing number of Senate Republicans.
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Senate Has Plenty of Reason to Reject Extreme Trump Fed Board Pick Judy Shelton On Top of Her Obsession with Returning to Gold Standard
For starters: Shelton has suggested holding an international summit on monetary policy at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago golf resort.
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New Poll Shows DeVos Deeply Unpopular, Strong Support for Investigations Into Education Department’s Misconduct
DeVos’ approval rating stands at an abysmal 28 percent.
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CFPB Director Kraninger Faces Congress One Year After She Unveiled Payday Protection Rollback
Kraninger’s semi-annual report would be incomplete and highly misleading if she neglects to mention that her decision to delay the ability-to-repay standard from taking effect last August has already cost consumers more than $3 billion and counting.
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At HFSC Hearing, Conservative Members Defend Rent-a-Bank Schemes After Taking Tons of Rent-a-Bank Money
It’s clear that some Committee Members are more worried over keeping the predatory lender money spigot open than the potentially billions of dollars consumers would save every year with a national interest rate cap.
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CFPBWatch.org Launched, Spotlights Trump Administration’s Anti-Consumer Agenda
New Effort from Allied Progress Documents Who Is ‘Weakening the Bureau From Within,’ Exposes Administration’s Corporate Conflicts of Interest
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REPORT: Most Who Filed SCOTUS Amicus Briefs Opposing CFPB’s Constitutionality Have Financial Motive in Crippling the Bureau
The vast majority of those who filed challenges to the bureau’s for-cause removal provision – and some to the CFPB’s very existence – have financial motives in seeing the bureau stripped of its independence or struck down entirely.
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CFPB Director Kraninger Made Time For Big Bank Holiday Parties
Kraninger blocked off time to attend two separate holiday parties hosted by the Bank Policy Institute and the American Bankers Association — because it’s what friends do.
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DeVos Gets Money’s Worth in SCOTUS School Voucher Case
DeVos has made massive “charitable” donations to right-wing groups willing to smear teachers’ unions and push discredited policies that undermine public education. And her investment just paid major dividends as one of her pet groups helped elevate the anti-public education cause all the way to the Supreme Court.