The Justice Department is investigating whether Visa Inc. V, -5.03% is engaging in anticompetitive practices in the debit-card market, according to people familiar with the matter. The department’s antitrust division has been gathering information and asking whether Visa, the largest U.S. card network, has limited merchants’ ability to route debit-card …
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A wrote another Twitter thread yesterday. I’m sharing the essay here as well (or you can read the original on Twitter). ——- A man I’m related to (he calls himself a Republican, but doesn’t like Trump) wrote a Facebook post calling for unity. He didn’t say the word unity, he …
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The 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) logo is seen through the window of a car in Kuala Lumpu, Malaysia, in 2016. AFP/Getty Images Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has agreed to a more-than-$ 2 billion settlement with the U.S. Justice Department for its role in Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal, Bloomberg News reported …
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For far too long, there haven’t been many good options for Americans who want to do well by doing good with their investment dollars. An entire industry has emerged to counsel investors on stocks to avoid, based on certain criteria: companies that don’t have diverse workforces, or those with objectionable …
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As my brain tried processing the incompressible death of George Floyd, I filtered it through the lens of my 25 years of urban policing, and the recurring theme I continued circling to, was that of police culture. I wasn’t the only cop grappling with what I saw. My social media pages …
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The U.S. Justice Department has ordered “maximum telework” after MarketWatch reported on staff members’ complaints about having to show up at their offices even after the coronavirus was detected among workers at a department building. “I am directing Components to move to a posture of maximum telework in the NCR …
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