Hints and tips:
...I wonder whether Sherrod Brown is going to wear with honour his 99 per cent voting record with Joe Biden....
...Donald Trump-backed Bernie Moreno won the closely watched Republican primary contest in Ohio, setting up a contest against longtime Democratic senator Sherrod Brown in what is almost certain to be one of...
...The winner will face incumbent Democrat Sherrod Brown in November. There are also primary contests taking place today in Arizona, Florida, Illinois and Kansas....
...It “could be ‘ha ha wasn’t that funny’ or ‘I made a bunch of investments and now I’m going to cash in on them’,” said Schneier, the Harvard lecturer and security technologist....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Rupert Murdoch: The News Corp chair will step down following today’s annual shareholders’ meeting, becoming chair emeritus....
...Sherrod Brown, the Democratic chair of the Senate banking committee, said First Republic’s collapse showed a need for “stronger guardrails”....
...Sherrod Brown, the Democrat who chairs the committee, will say officials let SVB ‘grow too big, too fast’. Earnings: Athleisure wear maker Lululemon is expected to report earnings today....
...“All options should be on the table, and that’s how I’m approaching it. But if we do this, we have to understand their trade-offs. It is not a pure play of allowing a larger set of insurance coverage....
...But you could talk about it,” said Sherrod Brown, chair of the Senate banking committee....
...“We are seeing what can happen when a bank is over-reliant on a risky, volatile sector like cryptocurrencies,” said US Senate banking committee chair Sherrod Brown on Wednesday....
...I’m not sure he even believes in it.” Politicians have been wary of blocking crypto “innovation”. Regulators have been overwhelmed....
...This is half of the 2 per cent rate that Senators Ron Wyden and Sherrod Brown had proposed last year....
...I’m not optimistic about how those stories will end. The light the SEC has shone on financial darkness is a bright spot in an otherwise troubling tale....
...“I’m sorry you had to face what I see as unfair attacks,” Tester said....
...But I’m going to be spending more time digging into private equity’s role in the ridiculous default rate level on loans in the for-profit education business (which companies like Apollo have been in, right...
...These are public service jobs, not opportunities to game the system,” Sherrod Brown, the Ohio Democratic senator and chair of the Senate banking committee, said this week....
...On the one hand, I’m sympathetic to this sentiment....
...But I do not think this makes buybacks market manipulation, as Senators Sherrod Brown and Ron Wyden insinuate....
...Sherrod Brown, the gravelly voiced Democratic senator from Ohio, set the tone. “[Facebook] is like a toddler who has gotten his hands on a book of matches,” he said....
...The next Senate finance chair, Sherrod Brown, is also a strong ally of unions, as is Marty Walsh, the next secretary of Labor....
...“Now, I’m being nominated to help ensure those programs are secure, and ensure families like mine can live with dignity,” she wrote on Twitter....
...“It’s the best thing . . . we've done in the Senate in my career,” Sherrod Brown, the Ohio Democrat, told CNN....
...“If the Democrats are willing to sit down, I’m willing to sit down anytime for bipartisan legislation. Let’s pass something quickly,” Mr Mnuchin told the Senate banking committee on Thursday....
...Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Ohio, turned to Mr Waller only to ask whether he would have hired Ms Shelton to his research staff in St Louis. Mr Waller said he tended to hire academics....
...“I’m not for a minute suggesting that we’re out of the woods . . . [but] I would remind my colleagues there’s no such thing as a free lunch,” he said on Tuesday....
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