Category: MoneyMoves
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The Effects of DACA’s Decline
The re-election of President Donald J. Trump puts the future status of undocumented people in jeopardy. For college-aged undocumented individuals, however, new research shows that circumstances have already been precarious for several years. In a forthcoming article, William C. Kidder, a research associate for the Civil Rights Project of the University of California, Los Angeles,…
Explore MoreThe U.N. Cybercrime Convention Is a Promethean Moment
Cybercrime has increased as technology and its applications have grown. On December 24, 2024, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a treaty entitled “Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes.” The treaty is also known as the Cybercrime Convention. The Cybercrime Convention is the first international criminal justice treaty of the…
Explore MoreU.K. Moves to Tighten Regulation of Financial Sector
A major technology disruption caused worldwide outages in July 2024, affecting air travel, retailers, and banks. The disruption caused the banking sector to lose $1.15 billion. Financial services regulators are now turning their attention to regulating third parties that work closely with firms that operate in the financial services industry in a bid to ensure…
Explore MoreReforming Digital Access to Opioid Addiction Medication
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently issued a rule extending—for the third time—COVID-19 pandemic-era flexibilities for prescribing controlled substances through telemedicine. The rule allows health care providers to continue prescribing controlled substances through a virtual consultation without first conducting an in-person evaluation of the…
Explore MoreWeek in Review
IN THE NEWS The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, gained access to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), including its headquarters, internal records, staff files, industry data, and consumer personally identifiable information. These actions come after Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent and Acting CFPB Director Russell Vought issued stop-work orders,…
Explore MoreInternational Organizations Can Help DOGE Deregulate
Days after the election of President Donald J. Trump and the announcement that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the two advisors to the then-incoming President published a widely read op-ed in the Wall Street Journal titled, “The DOGE Plan to Reform Government.” In their piece, Musk and…
Explore MoreRegulating Aviation Safety
Minutes before its scheduled landing on January 29, 2025, an American Airlines plane carrying 60 passengers and four crew members plummeted into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., after colliding with a military helicopter. All 64 people on board perished. Although the cause of the accident remains under investigation, a report by the Federal Aviation…
Explore MoreHoisted from Comments: A Discussion of China’s Faltering Growth
An example of the comments section at work, here on China, with both some very informative reader content and some sour notes.
Explore MoreWe Are Restoring Comments
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Explore MoreDOGEbag Roundup: Horrid Website, This Week’s Agency Targets, Sociology of DOGE
Like Trump, DOGE is very good at sensing weakness.
Explore More2:00PM Water Cooler 2/17/2025
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Humphrey’s Executor on the chopping block; Elon’s (putative) baby momma; Velvet ropes and the American dream ~
Explore MoreReviewing Efforts to Replace the Affordable Care Act
Over 45 million individuals receive health insurance only because of the Patient and Protection Affordable Care Act (ACA). As the ACA approaches its fifteenth anniversary, the statute will likely face opposition from the Trump Administration. A recent leak of potential cuts to federal health care financing underscores the increasing importance of understanding where the ACA…
Explore MoreWho Is Driving the Global Privatization of Domestic Infrastructure?
An otherwise informative post about the extent and hazards of infrastructure sales misses who the real bad actors are.
Explore MoreJust How Far Could the Fallout of Javier Milei’s $LIBRA Coin “Rug Pull” Scandal Reach?
If Milei is willing to rob not only his own citizens but his own fanbase in the broadest of possible daylight, what else is he capable of?
Explore More“We Must Fund Oppositions Properly to Save Democracy”
The Financial Times’ Martin Wolf, like quite a few others, looks for ways to save democracy from itself, as in rule by voters.
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