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WSJ Keeps an Eye on Bank Fees

Annual fees for debit cards could be next

The Wall Street Journal does a good job today on how banks are plotting new fees to get around the... More

Audit Notes: Banks Mislead, The South and Unions, Shareholder Capitalism

Adam Levitin of Georgetown Law and Credit Slips calls out the banking lobby for an "incredibly dishonest" attempt to mislead... More

Breakingviews Misses on the Fed’s Debit Card Rules

The banking lobby is pushing back bigtime against the Federal Reserve rules that would force it to stop gouging consumers... More

Some Questions on the Debit-Reform Story

It strikes me that this Wall Street Journal story on the banks' "strange bedfellows" opposing debit-card rules probably should have... More

The NYT Tilts Toward the Banks on Debit Interchange Fees

Edward Wyatt has a big piece in The New York Times on the banks' last-ditch attempts to weaken the rules... More

What Washington Does All Day

HuffPo with a terrific story on the obscure interchange battle and its meaning

David Brooks says correctly that not enough Washington reporters break away from the pack and report on how the... More

The completist guide to Star Trek

Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise

The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi

The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions

Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal

A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade

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