Loan plan in Republican bill could worsen doctor shortage, experts warn | US healthcare | The Guardian

"I, along with many others, worry that these changes will make medical school unaffordable, turn loan repayment into a pipe dream for residents, and worsen physician shortages – especially in primary care and underserved areas," wrote recent medical school graduate Kaley Parchinski in a Stat editorial...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/01/republican-trump-bill-doctor-shortage 

 

Private Equity P4. The Special Dividend Loan.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ckoitpR-hNU

 

Biden inks billion-dollar climate deals to foil Trump rollbacks - POLITICO

The administration is accelerating the approval of large loans for clean technologies that the president-elect attacked on the campaign trail...

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/20/biden-climate-trump-rollbacks-00190719

Banks pumped more than $150bn in to companies running ‘carbon bomb’ projects in 2022

The carbon bombs – 425 extraction projects that can each pump more than one gigaton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere – cumulatively hold enough coal, oil and gas to burn through the rapidly dwindling carbon budget four times over. Between 2016 and 2022, banks mainly in the US, China and Europe gave $1.8tn in financing to the companies running them, new research shows...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/31/banks-pumped-more-than-150bn-in-to-companies-running-carbon-bomb-projects-in-2022

The man in charge of how the US spends $400bn to shift away from fossil fuels

The department's loan programs office (LPO) was "essentially dormant" under Donald Trump, according to its head, Jigar Shah, but has now come roaring back with a huge war chest to bankroll emerging clean energy projects and technology...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/03/us-clean-energy-transition-jigar-shah-interview

Five red flags in Trump's taxes - POLITICO

The Joint Committee on Taxation says in a report released this week by Democrats that there are multiple issues that the IRS should be examining...

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/22/red-flags-trump-taxes-00075198

Pandemic unemployment fraud estimate reaches $46.5 billion - The Washington Post

Federal investigators similarly have raised alarms and pursued charges involving roughly $1 trillion in loans and grants meant to help small businesses. But theft isn't the only issue: In some cases, the government's generous aid proved ineffective or helped finance pet projects that had nothing to do with addressing the coronavirus, The Post has found. Republican governors, for example, tapped a $350 billion program meant to bolster their response to the crisis for a wide array of controversial political causes, including tax cuts and immigration crackdowns...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/09/22/unemployment-fraud-coroanvirus-pandemic/

Hundreds of Companies That Got Stimulus Aid Have Failed - WSJ

Recipients of PPP loans have filed for bankruptcy after the money ran out.....

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hundreds-of-companies-that-got-stimulus-aid-have-failed-11605609180

The Small Biz Double-Dip: Temp Companies Got Cheap Government Money, Got Paid by Clients for the Same Workers — ProPublica

One of the biggest beneficiaries of the Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses were temp agencies. Many have been able to turn the government loans into profits.
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-small-biz-double-dip-temp-companies-got-cheap-government-money-got-paid-by-clients-for-the-same-workers

Small Business Administration releases records on Paycheck Protection Program loans - The Washington Post

Almost 90,000 employers also appear to have received money despite not saying how many jobs they would save
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/06/sba-ppp-loans-data/

Small businesses sue Wells, JPMorgan, other banks over PPP loans - POLITICO

Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo are being sued by small business owners, who claim the big lenders unfairly favored companies seeking higher loan amounts under the government-backed Paycheck Protection Program.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/20/small-business-sue-wells-jpmorgan-197456

Trump asked businesses to share stimulus success stories — it didn’t go well – Raw Story

President Donald Trump on Tuesday asked his 76 million Twitter followers share stories of businesses finding success with the “Paycheck Protection Program” loan program that was part of the COVID-19 stimulus package. “So remember something, hashtag ‘America works together’ — that’s for small businesses, send whatever it is in about how great this experience has been from the standpoint of us bringing you back,” Trump said, in a video posted to Twitter. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/trump-asked-businesses-to-share-success-stimulus-success-stories-but-the-result-was-the-opposite/

‘Someone’s Gotta Tell the Freakin’ Truth’: Jerry Falwell’s Aides Break Their Silence - POLITICO

More than two dozen current and former Liberty University officials describe a culture of fear and self-dealing at the largest Christian college in the world....
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/09/jerry-falwell-liberty-university-loans-227914

Trump’s company could save millions if interest rates fall as he demands - The Washington Post

In the five years before he became president, Trump borrowed more than $360 million via four loans from Deutsche Bank for his hotels in Washington, D.C., and Chicago, as well his 643-room Doral golf resort in South Florida. The payments on all four properties vary with interest rate changes, according to Trump’s official financial disclosures.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-company-could-save-millions-if-interest-rates-fall-as-he-demands/2019/08/24/5e5df684-c5a9-11e9-b5e4-54aa56d5b7ce_story.html

Congress hasn't seen Trump's taxes, but Deutsche Bank has ... thanks to Ivanka - Daily Kos

One of the things that was made clear in Michael Cohen's testimony to Congress was that Donald Trump has committed bank fraud. Just like his campaign manager, Paul Manafort, Trump provided banks with purposely incorrect information about his assets, debts, and total net worth. And yet, one of those banks—Deutsche Bank—gave Trump loans even after he had defaulted on previous loans to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/3/1855123/-Congress-hasn-t-seen-Trump-s-taxes-but-Deutsche-Bank-has-thanks-to-Ivanka

A Mar-a-Lago Weekend and an Act of God: Trump’s History With Deutsche Bank - The New York Times

Deutsche Bank's hunger for profits and risk led it to lend Donald Trump more than $2 billion. Once he was elected president, employees were told not to utter his name...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/business/trump-deutsche-bank.html

Republicans propose new parents rob their own Social Security savings to fund 'paid' family leave - Daily Kos

Many Americans believe that early childcare is an important issue facing our country. Unlike most countries with electricity and running water, the U.S. is barbarically behind when it comes to the affordable quality options for our young children's care. Besides the fact that childcare in the United States is all over the map in regards to quality, the costs have become equivalent of a year's worth of public college...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1841530

Trump Wants to Give Loan Sharks Easier Access to the Poor - Vanity Fair

The president, champion of the working man, is about to gut consumer protections from predatory lenders. ....
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/trump-cfpb-payday-rule

How Russian money helped save Trump's business - Business Insider

After his financial disasters two decades ago, no U.S. bank would touch him. Then foreign money began flowing in.....
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/21/how-russian-money-helped-save-trumps-business/

'It's not fair, not right': how America treats its black farmers - the guardian

Sugarcane farmers can't survive without large crop loans. For the Provosts, who say they suffered decades of discrimination, this could be the end of the line ....
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/30/america-black-farmers-louisiana-sugarcane