Tag: Finance

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch announced that a deal had been struck hours before the conference committee tasked with hammering out the joint bill was set to meet for its first and only public meeting. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Bloomberg)

Senate, House reach agreement on tax bill

Joseph Lawler · December 13, 2017 5:16 pm

Republicans working on conferencing the House and Senate tax bills were still exchanging proposals between the two chambers Tuesday evening in anticipation of a public conference meeting on the bill Wednesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)

GOP eyes lower top individual rate, higher corporate rate in tax bill

Joseph Lawler · December 13, 2017 12:43 am

The president will bring a handful of middle-income families into the White House and explain their tax situations and how the bill's major provisions would affect them. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump to give ‘closing argument’ for tax bill on Wednesday

Joseph Lawler · December 12, 2017 9:51 pm

With unemployment low and heading toward levels not seen since the days of the dotcom bubble, the country needs more people off government programs and in the workforce, it is argued.

Trump tees up welfare reform

Joseph Lawler · December 5, 2017 5:01 am

Caroline Thorman is communications director for Rep. French Hill, R-Ark. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Mock legislature sparks desire to do the real thing

Joseph Lawler · December 4, 2017 5:01 am

In saying that there are no more banks so big and powerful that they are sure to receive government bailouts if they falter, Trump's nominee for Federal Reserve chairman went further than his predecessors have. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Fed nominee Jerome Powell says no more banks are ‘too big to fail’

Joseph Lawler · November 28, 2017 4:50 pm

Leandra English, who was elevated to interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by its outgoing director, met with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., on Monday to discuss the fight for control of the CFPB's fate. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Lawless Democrats launch a coup at the CFPB

Washington Examiner · November 28, 2017 5:01 am

"The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, has been a total disaster as run by the previous Administrations pick. Financial Institutions have been devastated and unable to properly serve the public. We will bring it back to life!", Trump tweeted Saturday. (AP Photos)

Finance and Economy

Trump to ex-CFPB head Richard Cordray: Don’t let the door hit you on the way out

Daniel Chaitin · November 25, 2017 11:01 pm

Cordray is expected to run for governor in Ohio next year. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Good riddance to Richard Cordray

Alfredo Ortiz · November 22, 2017 5:01 am

In many cases, these loans, even with high interest rates, are cheaper than incurring daily fees for overdrawing their accounts. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Beltway Confidential

Richard Cordray’s departure should end the campaign against payday loans

Patrice Onwuka · November 20, 2017 9:39 pm

Mulvaney once referred to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as "a sad, sick joke." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

OMB chief Mick Mulvaney eyed to temporarily head CFBP

John Siciliano · November 16, 2017 9:15 pm

Senate confirms former banker as top Trump bank regulator

Joseph Lawler · November 16, 2017 1:31 pm