How a judge’s scathing rebuke to Apple could change the app store

SAN FRANCISCO  — Apple Inc. suffered a major blow this week when a federal judge ruled that the iPhone maker violated a court order to stop charging commission fees for purchases made outside of its own marketplace. In a scathing rebuke, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers upped the stakes for Apple by referring the … Read more

‘Nowhere to hide.’ How Apple and others in Silicon Valley are bracing for Trump tariffs

SAN FRANCISCO  — The iPhone is a quintessentially 21st century product — Californian in its creation and design and now enmeshed in the global economy. Apple makes most of its iPhones in China, though in recent years the Cupertino-based company has made more of its products in India, Vietnam and other nations. In all, the … Read more

A Judge Rescued the CFPB From Being Dismantled. Is It Too Late for the Consumer Watchdog?

If the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau doesn’t prioritize protecting consumers, does it matter if the watchdog agency still exists? It might seem like a philosophical question, but this could be the CFPB’s final chapter. On Friday, a federal court blocked the Trump administration from dismantling the agency with a temporary injunction, ordering employees be reinstated. … Read more

Killing the Military’s Consumer Watchdog

Scott grew up in Baltimore, in the nineteen-eighties and nineties, “thinking that the government was an honorable place to work.” His grandfathers were Westinghouse engineers who conducted state-funded research. His parents were public-school music teachers. “Kids used to make fun of me for carrying a violin,” he told me. In college, he joined the R.O.T.C. … Read more

Elizabeth Warren Fights to Defend the Consumer Protection Agency She Helped Create

More than a decade and a half ago, I watched Elizabeth Warren bring a crowd in Washington to its feet with a ringing indictment of Wall Street and the toxic mortgage securities that had pushed the American banking system to the brink of collapse in the great financial crisis of 2008. Warren was then a … Read more