The Wall Street regulator Wednesday proposed a slate of changes to open private markets to retail investors, a priority of the Trump administration.

The Roosevelt Institute is glad that the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection is considering adding rules to ensure that consumers can easily cancel subscriptions and are not subject to decept...

Polymarket bets on the likelihood that some of the biggest names in banking, including Wells Fargo & Co., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Bank of America Corp., will fail are drawing scrutiny from of...

Prediction markets increasingly resemble gambling but operate under far fewer protections. Brad Lipton explains what federal rules leave out and why state gambling laws offer a stronger baseline.

Prediction markets increasingly resemble gambling but operate under far fewer protections. Brad Lipton explains what federal rules leave out and why state gambling laws offer a stronger baseline.

The investment manager aims to overhaul target-date funds with more options for employers.

Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are rapidly expanding beyond sports betting into politics, news, and global events, raising concerns about insider trading, market manipulation, and their...

The Justice Department is dropping the criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn that accused him of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, admitting that President Donald Trump’s $14 ...

A former Olympian will not face trial after federal prosecutors acknowledged that the Trump administration’s claims of vandalism were false.

Mortgage refinancing can save homeowners thousands annually—but low- and moderate-income borrowers face steep barriers. This report examines the inequities in refinancing participation and proposes st...

Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are rapidly expanding beyond sports betting into politics, news, and global events, raising concerns about insider trading, market manipulation, and their...

The Roosevelt Institute is glad that the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection is considering adding rules to ensure that consumers can easily cancel subscriptions and are not subject to decept...

Prediction markets claim to outperform traditional gambling by matching users against each other instead of a house. However, most participants end up competing against professional traders, and evide...

Mortgage refinancing can save homeowners thousands annually—but low- and moderate-income borrowers face steep barriers. This report examines the inequities in refinancing participation and proposes st...

To order the Trump phone, customers must join a waitlist on the website and pay a $100 refundable deposit.

Congress is currently considering the second bill of its planned three-part trilogy on cryptocurrency. The first was the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act, w...

Washington, D.C. (May 4, 2026) — Following the release of proposed language on stablecoin yield in the Clarity Act, the American Bankers Association, Bank Policy Institute, Consumer Bankers Associatio...

If Democrats win, the Court has given them little choice.

Tracking all of D.C.’s shuttered restaurants this month

Financialization began as a trend involving Wall Street, moved to Main Street and nonfinancial businesses, and is now increasingly present in Americans’ everyday lives.

The Trump administration is moving to shield national banks from an Illinois law limiting “swipe fees” on retail taxes and tips, even as a federal appeals court reviews banks’ challenge to the law.

Coinbase is working with Better to make crypto-backed mortgages a reality for millions of Americans. This first-of-its-kind mortgage product, offered by Better and powered by Coinbase, expands access ...

Efforts to open private equity and other private assets to retail investors—including now through 401(k) plans—are often framed as a long-overdue democratizatio

Reasonable people might think the DPA is no longer serving its purpose and should be abandoned. We argue this would be a short-sighted mistake, given the likely severity of the crises the US will soon...