📢More scholarship! In this article, Prof. @vijaybk.bsky.social rethinks the role of well-designed consumer financial protection institutions as a mechanism to counter the inherently unequal distribution of power coded in our financial system's legal design. Check it out!👇

✨MotL 82 is live!✨ moneyontheleft.org/2025/08/01/t... We speak with @vijaybk.bsky.social about the radical potential of consumer financial protection, linking history to today's debtors' movements & developing a democratic vision for the post-Trump era. Please listen & share! 🙏 🎧 🙌

Big thanks to @vijaybk.bsky.social for joining us on the Money on the Left podcast this month. We had a fascinating & wide-ranging conversation. Don't miss it!

The time I drove around Chicago documenting gentrification with Martin Sorrondeguy

I asked Lisa Epstein, the foreclosure victim who almost took down the foreclosure fraud machine, about the nomination of Pam Bondi. “The institutions weren’t there for people during the global financial crisis, and the chickens are coming home to roost.” prospect.org/justice/2024...

Bondi has been bad for a long time. Sold out Florida homeowners to protect the worst actors during the foreclosure crisis. If you didn’t live through that, you can read about it in dayen’s chain of title.