In an email to staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency’s acting director ordered workers to cease “all supervision and examination activity.”
Category: Regulation and Deregulation of Industry
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Solid Labor Market Gives Fed Cover to Extend Rate Pause
The central bank is grappling with how quickly to lower interest rates after pausing cuts last month.
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Government Agencies Cancel Politico Pro Subscriptions
The U.S.D.A. said Thursday that it had canceled its subscriptions to Politico Pro, a news and information service aimed at policy professionals.
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F.C.C. Releases CBS ’60 Minutes’ Interview With Kamala Harris
The complete interview, which is at the center of a lawsuit filed by President Trump, shows that “60 Minutes” aired a concise version of Ms. Harris’s answer on Israel.
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Why Elon Musk Is So Focused on the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, ‘America’s Checkbook’
Spending power, privacy concerns and conflicts of interest have put the bureau at the center of a political fight.
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Could the Trade Fight Take a Bite Out of Apple?
A news report says that Beijing is weighing an inquiry into the iPhone maker, underscoring Chinas options in fighting against President Trump’s tariff threat.
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S.E.C. Moves to Scale Back Its Crypto Enforcement Efforts
Some in a special unit of 50 lawyers and staff members that had been assigned to regulate cryptocurrency are being reassigned in the agency.
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Trump Promised a Cap on Credit Card Interest Rates. Here’s His Chance.
Senators Bernie Sanders and Josh Hawley say they will propose a 10 percent limit on credit card interest rates.
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How an Activist Group Helped Torpedo MDMA Therapy
The fallout from the F.D.A.’s rejection of a new treatment for PTSD worries researchers and experts who fear other psychedelic drugs in the pipeline could be jeopardized.
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‘60 Minutes’ Head Producer Says He Won’t Apologize Over Trump’s Lawsuit
Bill Owens, the show’s executive producer, addressed his staff as CBS’s parent company, Paramount, pursues a legal settlement with the president.
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How Costs for Online Sales After Trump’s Trade Move
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