January 12, 2017 Seattle officials join push for Sharia-compliant mortgages, loans A new proposal in Seattle to increase homeownership among Muslims by offering Sharia-compliant financing is gaining ground, in the latest test for local leaders trying to accommodate diverse religious views without giving unfair special treatment.
January 12, 2017 Critics blast loophole that forces taxpayers to fund public sector union work Bob Nicks has firefighting in his blood, but for the last four years, the Texas battalion chief has earned his six-figure salary sitting at a desk doing union work instead of running into burning buildings and saving lives.
October 6, 2016 Senate Democrats call for criminal probe of Wells Fargo Fourteen senators are calling on the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation of Wells Fargo executives after revelations that bank employees opened millions of fake bank and credit card accounts.
September 19, 2016 Trump tax plan may cost $1.5 trillion more than he says Donald Trump's tax plan may cost $1.5 trillion over the next decade more than he has projected and skew even more to the wealthy, according to a nonpartisan analysis released Monday.
June 2, 2016 Obama administration to announce new rules for payday lenders The Obama administration will announce Thursday the federal government’s first move to regulate high-interest, low-dollar “payday loans,” a $38.5 billion market currently left to the states.
May 2, 2016 House passes bill easing regulations on financial sector The House passed a bill Wednesday to ease the landmark law reining in banks and Wall Street, advancing a key Republican priority more than six years after a financial crisis brought on the Great Recession.
February 8, 2016 Which Republican candidates can make the flat tax work and help the economy? We have long loved the flat tax proposed by Senator Cruz and other GOP candidates. Senator Rubio, the flat tax attacker, has a plan that adds tax credits and keeps income tax rates relatively high.
January 8, 2016 The IRS backs down: How your voice made a difference, America The IRS backed down and decided not to implement a proposed regulation that would have some nonprofit charities report the Social Security numbers of donors giving at least $250 in one year.
December 20, 2015 Obama nominating Treasury official to run the Commodity Futures Trading Commission President Barack Obama is nominating a top Treasury Department official to run the independent agency that regulates the futures and options market.
December 20, 2015 Is Wall Street Dems' secret weapon in shutdown stalemate? Conversations with a number of Democratic leadership staffers, on both the House and Senate sides, suggest that as the partial shutdown grinds on, Democrats continue to believe that time is on their side -- not least because they believe they maintain in reserve a powerful, and somewhat surprising, ally: Wall Street.
