Tag: Regulations

Beltway Confidential

Local mayor wants to ban McDonald’s, therefore admits people want McDonald’s

Tim Worstall · April 23, 2018 8:07 pm

Wells Fargo agreed to a $1 billion settlement over auto- and mortgage-lending practices, and its growth has been capped by the Federal Reserve.

Wells Fargo’s $1 billion fine doesn’t fix lagging momentum

James Langford · April 23, 2018 2:48 pm

In this stock photo, a person types on a computer, and a large clock with alarm bells sits nearby on the table.

Don’t turn back the clock and re-regulate the Internet

Jeffrey Mazzella · April 23, 2018 4:00 am

President Trump listens during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House.

Beltway Confidential

Here’s a reason for libertarians to love Trump

Becket Adams · April 20, 2018 5:32 pm

Antitrust hasn’t dropped the ball on Big Tech, Trump appointee says

James Langford · April 20, 2018 5:10 pm

Wells Fargo agreed to pay $1 billion to settle government probes of its auto-loan and mortgage-lending practices.

Wells Fargo pays $1 billion to settle investigations of auto loans, mortgages

James Langford · April 20, 2018 1:30 pm

General Electric is cooperating with a Justice Department probe of a discontinued mortgage business.

GE reserves $1.5 billion to cover risk in Justice’s mortgage probe

James Langford · April 20, 2018 1:16 pm

A monitor displays General Electric Co. signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange earlier this year. While U.S. stocks have climbed overall, the historic manufacturer's shares have tumbled as CEO John Flannery attempts to turn around a company grappling with challenging markets and an influential activist investor.

GE profit surges despite weakening power business

James Langford · April 20, 2018 11:16 am

The House on Friday passed legislation aimed at curbing President Obamaâs use of executive authority to slow deportations of young people who arrived here as children.

Senate Republicans open new frontier in war on regs

Joseph Lawler · April 18, 2018 5:00 pm

Energy and Environment

Trump’s top domestic energy adviser leaving White House

Josh Siegel · April 17, 2018 6:41 pm

Time to break up Big Tech?

James Langford · April 17, 2018 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Swerving through partisan traffic in new ad, Joe Donnelly drives ‘down the Hoosier common-sense middle’

Philip Wegmann · April 16, 2018 9:02 pm