A federal watchdog report examining how the companies that run America’s 401(k) plans handle participant data found that most of the privacy policies it reviewed placed no limit on selling or sharing that information for marketing and that four separate federal agencies each explained why enforcement was not their responsibility. The Government Accountability Office published the findings in February 2026...
August 28, 2026
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The Lenders Say the Consumer Is Fine. The Consumer Says Otherwise.
Five of the largest credit card lenders in the United States told investors this summer that American consumers are paying their bills better than expected. Three of them lowered their forecasts for how much money they expect to lose to defaults this year. In the same weeks, consumer sentiment fell to a level below the 1st percentile of the University...
Caspian: Iran’s Limited Gateway to Unencumbered Trade
The U.S. naval blockade of Iran is frequently described as a total maritime cutoff. By the U.S. military’s own definition, it is not. It covers Iran’s southern coastline the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman and nothing else. Iran has a second coastline. It runs roughly 650 kilometers along the southern shore of the Caspian Sea, and it holds...
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126 Million Retirement Accounts, $9 Trillion in Assets, and No Regulator Who Says It’s Their Job
A federal watchdog report examining how the companies that run America’s 401(k) plans handle participant data found that most of...
The Lenders Say the Consumer Is Fine. The Consumer Says Otherwise.
Five of the largest credit card lenders in the United States told investors this summer that American consumers are paying...
Caspian: Iran’s Limited Gateway to Unencumbered Trade
The U.S. naval blockade of Iran is frequently described as a total maritime cutoff. By the U.S. military’s own definition,...
Political Polling: How Do They Keep Getting It Wrong?
With 73 days until the November 3 midterm elections, the country is heading toward the polls with less reliable information...
Iran’s Inventory Play: How Tehran Managed Its Oil Output Around a Storage Ceiling
In April, senior U.S. officials predicted that a naval blockade would fill Iran’s oil storage tanks within days and force...
Blakeman Closes to 10 Points on Hochul But the Poll That Moved Changed Its Own Rules
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman has cut Gov. Kathy Hochul’s lead in the New York governor’s race to 10 points,...
786,000 to One: How America’s Citizen-to-Representative Ratio Quietly Became One of the Worst in the Developed World
The Democratic Socialists of America released a national program in July 2026 called “Workers Deserve More,” and buried inside the...
Egg Recalls and the Vaccine America Approved but Won’t Use
Introduction On July 22, 2026, Midwest Poultry Services, L.P. pulled 1,589,577 dozen shell eggs roughly 19 million eggs off the...