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mm yes more of that populism I've heard so much about

as always the NYT does a great job "both sidesing" the banking industry's corrupt dismantling of a popular rule preventing price gouging, leaving it open to reader interpretation as to whether fucking consumers over at scale is bad

Like the times could just quote a respected, objective academic with decades of expertise on this subject who will clearly tell you modern banks are notoriously fucking bad and the rule was popular and good

They could also add a paragraph about how this is obviously glorified corruption in an era of faux-populism as useful context, but that might upset ownership or a source and then where would you be

They could also reiterate that bogging already struggling consumers down with predatory banking fees is exclusively a (very unpopular) Republican agenda and policy item, but then a Republican might get mad at them