Government
Online Shopping, Organized Retail Crime and E-Fencing
Each year organized groups of professional shoplifters steal or fraudulently obtain billions of dollars in merchandise to resell in an activity known as organized retail crime (ORC). These stolen goods can also be sold on online marketplaces, a practice known as "e-fencing." more »
The Woman Who Warned About the Financial Meltdown Ahead
Brooksley Born speaks on a re-broadcast of PBS Frontline program, The Warning, about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multi-trillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger the financial collapse in the fall of 2008. "What was it that was in this market that had to be hidden?" more »
"Bake sales aren't going to do this": States Push to Convert Interstate Highways Into Toll Roads
In 1998, Congress created a pilot program under which up to three states can start collecting tolls on existing interstates to fund improvements on those roads. So far, though, no states have used it. Virginia and Missouri both have federal permission to move ahead with the idea, but neither has the tolls up and running more »
Pew Research Looks At Older, 'Attentive' Americans and Opposition to Ryan Medicare Plan
Those ages 50 and older oppose this proposal, which is part of Rep. Paul Ryan’s deficit reduction plan, by a 51% to 29% margin. And this opposition is intense: 42% strongly oppose this kind of change, while only 19% strongly favor it. more »
