Russell Vought, acting director of the CFPB, on Capitol Hill in April.Bloomberg News Processing Content Key insight: The legal power struggle between the Trump administration and the National Treasury Employees Union has evolved into a major separation-of-powers showdown. What’s at stake: At issue is whether the president has the authority to dismantle an agency created […]
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Exactly 50 years ago this time of year, a 51-year-old man handwrote a four-page letter on a legal pad to his then 21-year-old son, one of seven children – six of them sons and one angel of a daughter – who was spending a semester studying in Dublin, Ireland. The letter’s narrative arc, now mostly
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For the better part of a decade, the Texas growth playbook was remarkably simple. If you wanted scale, liquidity and appreciation, you went to the Texas Triangle: Austin, Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio and tried to be early to the next ring of rooftops. Those four metros captured the lion’s share of population and
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