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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cracks down on credit card late fees
The rule was passed in an effort to save 45 million people an average of $220 or more than $10 billion a year.
Capital One announces plan to buy Discover
Capital One announced a definitive agreement under which the company will acquire Discover in an all-stock transaction valued at $35.3 billion.
Bank of America pays $250 million to customers and in penalty fees...
CFPB said Bank of America implemented a "double-dipping scheme" to "harvest junk fees" from customers and those actions are "illegal and undermine customer trust."
World’s biggest banks poured $673 billion into fossil fuels last year
“This is one of the most insane misallocations of capital in human history.”
David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky | Savage capitalism
From climate change to bank failures to war.
What connects Trump’s likely arrest with the bank bailouts?
Let's start with multi-billionaire Peter Thiel, and follow the money.
US mega-banks behind 1/3 of climate-destroying oil and gas expansion: Report
"Global banks' top fossil fuel clients amount to a rogues' gallery of bad actors."
Wells Fargo announces commitment to join Net-Zero Banking Alliance and reach...
"Achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 means stopping financing for the expansion of fossil fuels now."
UK banks defend climate record despite billions lent to fossil fuel...
DeSmog research has found that over 86 percent (13 out of 15) of HSBC’s board of directors have current or past ties to polluting companies and industries.
Bankers eager to continue funding oil and gas
Comments from a recent energy industry conference reveal major financiers of fossil fuels view environmental and social investing concerns as a trend to “inoculate” against.
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Live by phony conspiracies, die by real conspiracies: Truth crawls from a swamp of...
On top of six months of popularity-killing blundering, reality is outing Trump—blowing apart obsolete fix-it moves.
Colbert’s termination is a corporate assault on dissent and a victory for Trump
Was he blindsided by media conglomerates eager to capitulate to him?
Texas lawmakers largely ignored recommendations aimed at helping rural areas like Kerr County prepare...
Although it had been only seven years since Hurricane Harvey, legislators now prioritized the state’s water and drought crisis over flooding needs.
CBO: Trump law will add $3.4 rrillion to deficit, boot 10 million off health...
Warnings about the law's impact on the national debt and the healthcare of millions—particularly Americans on Medicaid—were prominent during the GOP effort to pass the budget reconciliation package by Trump's Independence Day deadline.
To resist injustice in Gaza and the wider world
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is neither polemic nor memoir, although it contains elements of both.