The Head of the Deutsche Bank Division That Loaned Trump $364 Million Just Got a Big Promotion
Press Association/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week, Deutsche Bank, the struggling financial giant that is Donald Trump’s biggest lender, anointed a new CEO, a longtime executive named Christian Sewing. He’s worked in a number of roles at the bank, but what’s significant about his résumé is the job…
Rudy Is Back in the Saddle
Siavosh Hosseini/NurPhoto via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump has had trouble finding any decent lawyers who are willing to work with him on the Russia probe, so he’s finally decided to let his pal Rudy Giuliani come on board. But what exactly is Giuliani’s role going to…
Not So Raw Data: Who’s Buying New Cars?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This is from a Fed Note published in 2016: The column on the far right is the one to look at. It means that the likelihood of buying a car didn’t change much for different age groups once you control for family and income: In…
Kirsten Gillibrand Takes Aim at ICE After an Arrest at a New York Dairy Farm
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Things have gone sour for New York’s dairy industry, the third-largest of any US state. Years of low milk prices have led to steady stream of farm closings and farmer suicides. The industry’s workforce, which includes large numbers of immigrants, faces low wages, long hours, and high…
Raw Data: Who Lives In Our Biggest Cities?
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An Appeals Court Just Thwarted Trump’s Efforts to Punish Sanctuary Cities
An immigration protest outside the U.S. Capitol last month.Ting Shen/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s decision to issue a national injunction against the Trump administration’s efforts to deny federal funding to sanctuary cities. The three-judge panel sided with…