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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Mick Mulvaney Is Pretending Everything's Totally Normal at Work
The legal battle for control of the CFPB isn’t stopping Trump’s pick from assuming the role of interim director.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Monday Morning Drama at Trump's Most Hated Agency
The workweek got off to a weird start when two people showed up expecting to fill the role of acting director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Departing Consumer-Finance Director Moves to Thwart Trump
By appointing a new deputy director before resigning, Richard Cordray is signaling that the Bureau has no intention of letting the president name his own acting director.
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Ramon Espinosa / AP The Tiny Dominican Factory That Disproves the Need for Sweatshops
Sarah Adler-Milstein, a labor advocate, argues “there’s absolutely no reason” the world’s biggest clothing brands couldn’t follow the example of Santo Domingo’s Alta Gracia.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters The Glaring Blind Spot of the 'Me Too' Movement
Lena Dunham’s defense of a Girls writer accused of sexual assault highlights how frequently allegations from women of color are dismissed.
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Alex Brandon / AP The Dismal Future of Trump's Least Favorite Agency
Mick Mulvaney, the controversial head of the OMB, might soon direct the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency he once called “a sick, sad joke.”
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Larry Busacca / Getty The Law Firm Playing Both Sides of the Weinstein Scandal
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP was reportedly representing The New York Times while simultaneously trying to kill one of the paper’s stories.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The U.S. Economy Reaches Lowest Unemployment Rate Since 2000
In October, the country added 261,000 jobs, picking up after a short slump.
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Andrew Harnik / AP / Katie Martin / ... Who Is Jerome Powell, Trump’s Pick for Fed Chair?
His nomination represents a political compromise, as he's a regulation-cautious Republican who would likely keep up the policies of his Democratic predecessor.
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Reuters Trump Is Turning the Fed Pick Into a Reality Show
Why, yes, the president of the United States did create an Instagram teaser for his forthcoming central-banking announcement.
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Jessica Rinaldi / Reuters There Are Currently 4 Black CEOs in the Fortune 500
Next year, that number is set to drop to three. What happened to progress toward diversifying corporations' highest ranks?
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Congress's Late-Night Vote to Protect Banks From Lawsuits
People will now have a much harder time taking financial institutions to court.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters America’s Sexual-Assault Epidemic
The Harvey Weinstein scandal rocking Hollywood has now spread throughout the American business world, with a growing list of firings and suspensions among high-profile men.
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Suzanne Plunkett / Reuters When Payday Loans Die, Something Else Is Going to Replace Them
The question is whether that something will be just as bad.
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Toru Hanai / Reuters Is Trump to Thank for the Dow Hitting 23,000?
The president keeps congratulating himself for a bull market that he didn’t create.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Hurricanes Irma and Harvey Spur the First Employment Decline in 7 Years
The U.S. labor market lost 33,000 jobs in September.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters One Year After Its Fake-Accounts Scandal, Wells Fargo Isn't 'A Better Bank'
When the Senate Banking Committee summoned the company's CEO to describe its progress, there wasn't much to report.
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Ricardo Arduengo / AFP / Getty The Next Challenge for Puerto Rico’s Recovery
The island will likely get the short-term help it needs. But that will do little to help its ongoing fiscal crisis.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Steven Mnuchin's Defense of Trump's Tax Plan
The Treasury secretary makes more-muted promises than his boss, but agrees that the White House’s latest proposal will yield “enormous” progress.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Equifax's CEO Steps Down After Huge Breach
Richard Smith is leaving the company in the wake of a hack that exposed 143 million Americans to potential identity theft.
