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Elizabeth Warren Hammers the Endless Failures of Wall Street Regulators
Warren assailed the nation's top bank regulators on Wednesday for coddling Wall Street offenders and ducking the responsibilities Congress assigned them in the wake of the 2008 financial meltdown.
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Lawmakers Unveil Secretly Negotiated Deal to Fast-Track F̶r̶e̶e̶ ̶T̶r̶a̶d̶e̶ TPP
“We can’t fast track fast-track, that’s a complete abdication of our responsibilities...”
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Cooper Union: Will Jamshed Bharucha go quietly?
If Bharucha cares at all about Cooper Union, it’s pretty obvious that at this point he should resign. By Felix Salmon.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership is great for elites. Is it good for anyone else?
The secretive and anti-democratic way global trade rules are written often leads to one-sided rules that benefit powerful interest groups.
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The Mansions Owned by White-Collar Criminals
Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, Madoff. A look at the mansions built or bought with corporate fraud.
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The Grand Canyon Is Getting A Mall
Investment interests want to build a multi-tier mall at the Grand Canyon, and they’re paying off Navajo leaders—at least one who years ago resigned in disgrace—to do so.
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Payday at the mill
How sophisticated financiers used a Maine investment program they devised to wring millions of dollars in risk-free returns at taxpayer expense
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The Whistleblower’s Tale: How An Accountant Took on Halliburton
In 2005, Tony Menendez blew the whistle on Halliburton’s accounting practices. The fight cost him nine years of his life.
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Corporations now spend more lobbying Congress than taxpayers spend funding Congress
One sentence that explains why lobbyists run Congress.
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Deutsche Bank pays record fine for Libor manipulation
Deutsche Bank has paid a record $2.5bn to authorities in the US and UK to settle allegations that it manipulated the Libor benchmark rate, a key interbank borrowing rate that underpins as much as $350tn of debt worldwide.
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Pentagon can’t account for $1 billion in Afghan reconstruction aid
The amount is 60 percent of spending under an emergency program intended to let American military officers bypass bureaucracy to fund urgently needed roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, water-treatment plants and other infrastructure.
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How China’s Macau crackdown threatens big US casino moguls
Investigation reveals how gambling giants made billions against backdrop of triads, vice and corruption in ‘Vegas of the east’
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GOP, Pentagon tussle over East Coast shield
The Pentagon has repeatedly said it doesn’t need — nor can it afford — a third anti-missile battery on American territory to defend against a possible attack from North Korea or Iran. But that hasn’t stopped congressional Republicans...
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States can ban elected judges from asking for campaign money, Supreme Court says
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld state laws that bar elected judges from asking for money to support their campaigns.
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Selling Out the Constitution and Main Street on Trade
This “free trade” legislation will allow companies to export jobs and import cheap goods at the expense of the American worker.
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2 Indicted in George Washington Bridge Case
Ally of Christie Pleads Guilty
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Sheldon Adelson lectures court after tales of triads and money laundering
The billionaire’s Las Vegas trial heard claims that his Macao casino had organised crime links but the 81-year-old was more interested in telling lawyers’ their job
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Killer Pharmacy: Inside a Medical Mass Murder Case
How a seemingly innocuous pharmacy was making millions of dollars by cutting corners, fabricating records and ignoring laws designed to keep contaminated drugs off the market.
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F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says
There is a stalemate among the agency’s six commissioners, who are perpetually locked in 3-to-3 ties along party lines because of a fundamental disagreement over the commission’s mandate.
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Government Says Company Part-Owned by Feinstein's Husband Abuses Post Office Contract
CBRE, a giant real estate company partially owned by Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s husband, Richard Blum, is costing the U.S. Postal Service millions of dollars a year in lease overpayments, and its exclusive contract should be immediately canceled, the service’s inspector general has found. by David Dayen.
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