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My god it’s like the worst version of alpha house

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Personally, I think we should bring back jousting. Want to be an elite? You and your kids have to run at each other really fast on horses with big sticks

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Paoletta sent an email to CFPB enforcement staff stating that Vought is "implementing new enforcement priorities." Enforcement staff were ordered to make no further contact with parties in litigation. Failure to abide by his instructions "constitutes insubordination" and risks termination.

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We’re so on the map y’all

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am I just a brain in a jar somewhere

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I’m sorry did Thom Tillis just say he would be OK with an Aryan bank?

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OpenAI right now

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throws story notes in air

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A former tech CEO is on a crusade to get the record of his arrest removed from the internet — suing a journalist for $25 million for truthfully reporting that the domestic violence arrest had occurred. sf.gazetteer.co/a-former-tec...

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Follow along for live updates on Scott Bessent's confirmation hearing www.americanbanker.com/live-blog/sc...

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Not that Treasury Secretaries need to be from abject poverty, but Lindsey Graham is talking about Little River like it's not mostly golf clubs and wineries

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Meet your new banking lawmakers (and maybe most interestingly, who isn't on a banking committee) www.americanbanker.com/list/meet-fo...

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Unexpected plot twist in adulthood is being suddenly 100% on board with all the librarians who lectured us in middle school about how unreliable internet research is

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Worth noting who is framed as creating the distraction in the framing of Barr’s resignation from Vice Chair for Supervision. Of course, it would be the President if he attempted to demote the VCS or remove him as Governor. Also, interesting implications for the conception of Fed independence.

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First in American Banker: Momentum picks up on deposit insurance reform. Rep. Maxine Waters, top Dem on the House Financial Services Committee, introduces a bill very similar to one from JD Vance that would up deposit insurance for non interest bearing accounts www.americanbanker.com/news/exclusi...

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I am going to have to write about HFSC Chairman French Hill questioning FDIc Chairman Travis Hill on the Hill, aren’t I

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Somebody wants Thanksgiving leftovers…

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Unbelievable how far this sport/the women’s game has come #letsgospirit

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NEWS: Gruenberg to retire from FDIC on Jan. 19

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Truly a golden age

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"We asked, in fact, begged, the Senate Banking Committee to hold a hearing, and they haven't answered our request." Sen. Marshall says at credit card Visa/Mastercard hearing. He says he'll "let you all decide why"

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Nothing better than a cardboard sign at a congressional hearing. Is there like a FedEx around here that’s just making out on print-on-demand?

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current Treasury nominee status: "my sources don't know what's happening and neither do I"

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First in American Banker: Interesting commentary out from Rohit Chopra on deposit insurance — and it’s an idea that isn’t necessarily going to die at the end of the Biden administration www.americanbanker.com/news/after-o...

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If any of y’all aren’t hip to US women’s professional soccer, today’s Washington Spirit game was insane. I beg of someone PLEASE write a profile of Michele Kang

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This was FAST

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Stuck out to me in French Hill’s community bank plan: he wants to push through in budget reconciliation a measure to expand the ability of some banks to be classified as an S Corporation (significantly reduces their taxes) www.americanbanker.com/news/french-...

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As someone who viscerally remembers the Christian right’s opinions on stem cell research in the early aughts, the GOP about face on the topic is absolutely buck wild

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(Also hi, are we doing this thing again?)

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What a populist pairing of Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren might mean for bankers in Trump’s Washington www.americanbanker.com/news/congres...

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Sad day for American Banker. We lost a few great journalists, who I will let identify themselves when they chose to talkingbiznews.com/media-news/a...

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Where have all the bankers in Congress gone? The upcoming retirement of Blaine Luetkemeyer leaves few senior Republicans with direct experience in the industry in high-profile positions on any banking-related committees in the House or Senate. www.americanbanker.com/news/where-h...

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