In The Headlines Did Navient Cheat Student Loan Borrowers Out of Billions? Federal regulators at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) are suing Navient, the nation’s biggest student loan company, claiming that it cheated borrowers out of billions of dollars by giving them bad information, processing payments incorrectly, and failing to [...]

In The Headlines Hospitals Struggle to Survive in an Era of Hyper Cost-cutting The two gleaming operating rooms in this Kingston, New York, hospital still look brand-new seven years after being built for $5 million: They’ve never seen one patient, and never will. With an occupancy rate of just over 50%, [...]

In The Headlines A Not so Happy Holiday Selling Season for Most Retailers? Despite several early reads that the season came in better than expected, most of the department stores and specialty chains that have announced their results said sales at their established stores continued to slide in November and December. [...]

In The Headlines Foreign Selling of US Treasuries Could Pressure Rates Further The biggest foreign buyers of U.S. government bonds are quickly retreating after years of absorbing record amounts of the securities. This is an important dynamic to understand when looking at the potential fate of the $13.6 trillion Treasury market [...]