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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is taking aim at the practice of borrowers exchanging the title of their vehicle for a small-dollar loan.

Today on TAP: His industrial-policy programs are great. How much of an election year difference can they make?

The Sacklers might actually get their legal immunity stripped, by the Supreme Court of all people.

He’s the latest of many Republican imperialists to endorse another war of aggression.

Not if our corporations produce their goods in countries with lower wages than the Chinese.

Today on TAP: Is there anything capitalism can’t co-opt?

The econ blogosphere hasn’t really checked, but knows in its heart American workers aren’t up to the job.

The e-commerce company is a principal member of the trade group lobbying the Treasury Department for looser rules on the emerging fuel.

Aaron Regunberg has left-wing endorsements; Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos, more centrist ones. But Matos is fending off a series of scandals.

Today on TAP: The gulf between urban, suburban, and rural counties in Tuesday’s vote was, well, total.

Stock in Medical Properties Trust tanked 14 percent this week after a couple of eyebrow-raising disclosures.

Automakers switching to Tesla’s charging plug opens up more opportunities in the short term, but problems in the long term.

Biden administration officials and some congressional leaders want federal employees back in their offices. But flexible schedules are here to stay.

Today on TAP: Red-state voters reject both a ham-handed move to undermine democracy as well as abortion restrictions.

The trucking company alleges the Teamsters used the company as a sacrificial lamb.

Entertainment workers are organizing across the board.

Hickory, North Carolina, is home to nearly half of the country’s fiber-optic cable production, which is growing because of the Biden infrastructure law.

His legal strategy is to gum up the process until after the election. It will probably work.

Elliott Management is asking FERC to let it purchase up to one-fifth of the common stock in a Texas utility.

Today on TAP: The UAW is asking the Big Three automakers to raise wages by the same percentage that their CEOs’ pay has risen.