…is the headline associated with Sunday's NPR story about individuals' requests that Google "erase their digital footprint." NPR interviews Mona Chalabi, one of the number crunchers at fivethirtyeight.com, about this new phenomenon. Since the European Court of Justice ruled last year that Google must respect Europeans' "right to be forgotten," the company has received around […]
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Public Citizen is also speaking today about the fifth anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act: On the fifth anniversary of the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, key provisions of the law still have not been implemented or are inadequately enforced, a new Public Citizen report (PDF) shows. The report, “Dodd […]
The Hill reports today: President Obama on Tuesday will unveil new rules designed to protect service members and their families from predatory lenders. In his speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Pittsburgh, the president will detail how the Defense Department is broadening the scope of the Military Lending Act (MLA). The law, […]
The fifth anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act prompted several articles today. Here here are few. 5 Numbers To Know As Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Celebrates Its 5th Birthday From Think Progress: Tuesday marks the five-year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank overhaul of America’s money business. The law is officially old […]
The story, based on data from Sallie Mae, is accompanied by several informative charts documenting the rise of higher education and breaking down methods of payment by category — grants, student income and saving, parents income/savings, other relatives, and loans. The amount financed by parents and other relatives is revealing in terms of the barriers […]
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act turns five years old this week. The Wall Street Journal interviewed the Act's sponsors, former Sen. Chris Dodd and former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, about the law. Excerpts are here.
The New York Times weighs in on pending amendments to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: A bill passed by the House and ostensibly designed to streamline the Food and Drug Administration is loaded with bad provisions and may not even be necessary. The Senate should either eliminate or rewrite the flawed provisions before passing […]
This study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University finds that people who live in certain zip codes in Pennsylvania with fracking were hospitalized more often than people who live in a "control county" that does not have fracking. The study says that the "data suggest that [fracking] wells, which dramatically increased […]
The New York Times reports: The Treasury Department has begun a study of online marketplace lenders, as the federal government looks to determine whether regulations are keeping up with the rapidly growing industry. As many traditional banks have retreated from making small loans to businesses and consumers, a flood of online lenders have filled the […]
"For many households, the monthly rent check is so big that it eats up the majority of their paycheck — and the burden is growing," observed the Washington Post this week, in a story discussing a recent Harvard report on the subject and explaining that 11 million Americans, or about a quarter of all renters, spent more […]