January 16, 2025

BUSINESSES

Popular Information - An explosive new lawsuit filed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau alleges that Capital One bank cheated its customers out of $2 billion. According to the lawsuit, Capital One deceived and abused its depositors, baiting them with promises of high interest rates before switching the terms and paying little interest. The CFPB claims that Capital One purposefully hid the truth about these accounts from customers and concealed the availability of a new product that paid much higher interest. 

Axios Markets - CEOs are enjoying a hot speech winter — one where speaking out in outrageous ways carries no cost, Axios' Felix Salmon writes. CEOs of old would generally wield their power and authority with judiciousness and restraint. A new breed appears to be reveling in the fact that President-elect Trump has ripped off those fetters.

Trump's superpower has always been that he's able to say truly outrageous things and suffer no real repercussions. Elon Musk has followed in his footsteps. Now others are jumping on the bandwagon, most prominently Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

A "top banker" told the Financial Times this week (but only on condition of his anonymity) that he feels "liberated" because he can now say shockingly vulgar things (which we won't repeat here) without fear of cancellation.


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