by Jesse Coburn | Nov 21, 2025 | car crash, Department of Transportation, Deregulation, News, PHMSA, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Pipelines, Public Safety, railroads, Sean Duffy, Transportation, Trump Administration
On its face, the rule proposed in July by the country’s pipeline-safety regulator seemed innocuous. The regulator, a division of the U.S. Department of Transportation called the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, was proposing what looked like minor, bureaucratic changes to its process for issuing regulatory waivers. Between the lines, PHMSA watchers saw a much more…
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by Jake Pearson | Nov 8, 2025 | big tech, Billionaires, CFPB, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Cryptocurrency, Deregulation, DOGE, Donald Trump, Marc Andreessen, News Analysis, silicon valley, Trump Administration
For more than a decade, Silicon Valley venture capitalists have poured enormous sums of money into newfangled technology companies seeking to disrupt, and even supplant, the traditional financial system and sidestep its burdensome regulations. At the same time, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has policed that effort, going after such businesses for deceiving…
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