Bank of America whistle-blower details latest scheme to abuse homeowners, evade settlement rules and pocket cash
David Dayen Friday, Jun 28, 2013 7:30 PM UTC
Business Banks, Bank of America
Read former staff describe getting Target gift cards as a prize for foreclosing on people, and other awful schemes
David Dayen Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 4:06 PM UTC
Business Bank of America, Loans
Bombshell: Bank of America whistle-blowers detail horrid schemes to fleece borrowers, reward foreclosures (UPDATED)
David Dayen Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 11:45 AM UTC
Business Bank of America, Foreclosure
You can't refinance, or get rid of the debt through bankruptcy. Here's how it's even more of a sham than you know
David Dayen Wednesday, Jun 5, 2013 11:45 AM UTC
Business Student Loan Debt
It wasn’t Jerry Brown’s austerity that led the fiscal comeback. It was the state’s smart, bold progressive movement
David Dayen Friday, May 31, 2013 5:17 PM UTC
Business California, jerry brown
Senator's new measure denies food stamps for life to certain classes of ex-convicts (solicitation not included)
David Dayen Friday, May 24, 2013 4:16 PM UTC
Business David Vitter, Farm Bill
For all the outcry about targeting by ideology, IRS has for years unfairly favored a different group: the rich
David Dayen Thursday, May 16, 2013 4:09 PM UTC
Business IRS, Scandal, audit, the rich
The senator tells Salon about plan to lower student loan rates -- to match same rate banks pay to borrow from Fed
David Dayen Wednesday, May 8, 2013 11:26 PM UTC
Business Salon, interview
New data reveals mega-banks still illegally foreclosing on thousands. Get this: The housing settlement allows it
David Dayen Thursday, May 2, 2013 3:08 PM UTC
Business settlement, Foreclosure, Fraud
If foreclosure victims get justice, trace it back to a bad decision to stonewall Elizabeth Warren last week
David Dayen Monday, Apr 15, 2013 4:43 PM UTC
Business Elizabeth Warren
How the industry uses the high court to allow bribery, evade the FDA, and boost medicine prices 5 times their cost
David Dayen Friday, Mar 29, 2013 6:14 PM UTC
Technology Supreme Court, FTC, Drugs
How the nation's biggest banks use the little-covered House Agriculture Committee to gut regulations
David Dayen Wednesday, Mar 20, 2013 5:02 PM UTC
Business JP Morgan Chase, Jamie Dimon
With mega-banks illegally foreclosing on active duty members, the penalty is jail. But, as always, there's a catch
David Dayen Tuesday, Mar 5, 2013 12:30 PM UTC
Business U.S. Military, Wall Street, Crime
Justice Department prosecutor Lanny Breuer gives an unapologetic exit interview to Dealbook
David Dayen Friday, Mar 1, 2013 3:57 PM UTC
Business Wall Street, Lanny Breuer
Meet Wall Street's scapegoat, the one person to get jail time for the most massive mortgage fraud in history
David Dayen Sunday, Feb 24, 2013 12:00 PM UTC
Business Mortgage Fraud, Housing, Crime
Hint: It will also protect ordinary Americans from financial predators
David Dayen, Pacific Standard Monday, Feb 18, 2013 7:00 PM UTC
News POstal service, Government
The secret truth: There never was a “task force” dedicated to ferreting out mortgage fraud
David Dayen Wednesday, Feb 13, 2013 5:26 PM UTC
Business Eric Schneiderman, Barack Obama
On Dec. 31, underwater homeowners could be hit with a huge tax bill, unless Congress moves to help them
David Dayen Wednesday, Aug 1, 2012 8:00 PM UTC
Politics U.S. Economy, Mortgage Crisis