While many tribal leaders met in Milwaukee, WI at the National Congress of American Indians’ 74th Annual Convention, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced the nomination of Tara Sweeney to the position of Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs. Sweeney stands...
It took a federal court jury only five hours to return a guilty verdict for Scott Tucker and attorney Timothy Muir in their trial for fraud, money laundering, conspiracy, and racketeering. Over the course of almost a month, federal prosecutors told the story of how...
As the Financial CHOICE Act 2.0 stalls in the Senate, a group of moderate Democrats are reaching across the aisle to bring smaller, but meaningful, changes to the Dodd-Frank Act, Obama-era legislation that placed considerable restraints on financial institutions...
On October 11th, President Trump met with Stanford Economist John Taylor about assuming the role of Chair of the Federal Reserve when Janet Yellen’s term leading the Fed’s Board of Governors expires in January. Speculation has swirled for months over who will assume...
Despite the old adage that “money can’t buy happiness,” a new study by Wells Fargo is linking money with happiness among the maturing millennial generation. That happiness, however, is not related to purchasing big ticket items or even avocado toast,...
The Federal Reserve released data today showing that consumer credit use grew by more than 4% in August to the tune of $13.1 billion. This was more than one percentage point below the previous month’s data and more than two percentage points below average 2016 levels....
