Lenders must stop stoking demand for loans: or there’ll be another firestorm

Britain is on a consumer credit binge. Over the past year, growth per head of population has increased by 1% while the amount consumers have racked up – on their credit cards, on car finance and in unsecured personal loans – has increased by 10%. This is a...

News Analysis: How to Repair the Health Law (It’s Tricky but Not Impossible)

How to Repair the Health Law (It’s Tricky but Not Impossible) By REED ABELSON, ABBY GOODNOUGH and KATIE THOMAS July 29, 2017 A man in Miami in 2015 directed passers-by to an insurance company where they could sign up for health coverage...

Here’s why one of bitcoin’s largest exchanges was brought down by the feds

This week, one of Bitcoin’s largest and most notorious coin exchanges was brought down by law enforcement — and police and prosecutors are now beginning to explain why. On Thursday, the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against Alexander Vinnik...