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June 21, 2017

Newly created fed agency aims to monitor 80 percent of credit card transactions

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau officials are seeking to monitor four out of every five U.S. consumer credit card transactions this year -- up to 42 billion transactions -- through a controversial data-mining program, according to documents obtained by the Washington Examiner.

May 24, 2017

Judges divided over power of federal consumer agency

Federal appeals judges are divided as they hear arguments over whether the president should be able to more easily fire the head of the government's consumer finance watchdog agency.

January 19, 2017

US’ largest student loan company, Navient, cheated millions, suit alleges

Federal regulators have sued Navient, accusing the biggest U.S. student loan company of making it harder for borrowers to repay loans by giving them bad information, processing payments incorrectly and failing to act on complaints.

January 12, 2017

Should you disobey most laws?

Charles Murray, already controversial for writing books on how welfare hurts the poor, on ethnic differences in IQ and on (less controversial, but my favorite) happiness and good government, has written a new book that argues that it’s time for civil disobedience.

January 12, 2017

Everybody knows a control freak, they're called public servants

Control freaks want to run your life. They call themselves “public servants.”

January 12, 2017

Republicans want to repeal ObamaCare -- but maybe they'd keep some of it

Despite pledges by Republicans to take down ObamaCare, some still indicate there are parts in the president's controversial health care overhaul that could be preserved if the party ever got its wish of repealing the law.

January 12, 2017

Up in smoke? California lawmaker wants to defund DEA's pot eradication program

A California lawmaker is pushing to get rid of the Drug Enforcement Administration's pot eradication program, arguing it's fiscally irresponsible to spend millions burning up marijuana plants at a time when several states are legalizing the drug.

January 12, 2017

Obama faces digital divide growing wider on heels of FCC court ruling

The great digital divide that President Obama repeatedly has pledged to fix could grow even wider, after a recent federal court ruling put the president's promise of leveling the tech playing field in jeopardy.

January 12, 2017

Raises all around? Federal agency scraps employee rating system

America's new consumer watchdog agency has come up with a unique solution for its troubled employee-rating system: Give almost everyone a gold star.

January 12, 2017

‘Heroin in a capsule’? Lawmakers step up fight against FDA-approved painkiller Zohydro

State and federal lawmakers are working in tandem to get the controversial painkiller Zohydro ER permanently shelved, even as the head of the Food and Drug Administration defends the agency’s decision to approve the powerful opiate some critics call “heroin in a capsule.”