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Fed's Barr Defends Long-Term Debt Mandate For Big Banks
by Gunnar Larson 21 Feb '25

21 Feb '25

Fed's Barr Defends Long-Term Debt Mandate For Big Banks <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/2300489?nl_pk=31322029-63eb-4d40-ac…> By Jared Foretek The Federal Reserve's chief bank regulator said Thursday that the country's financial system was "sound and resilient" but warned of increased risks if post-financial crisis reforms aren't maintained and finished, specifically arguing for the implementation of Basel III Endgame rules on liquidity standards and debt requirements. Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/2300489?nl_pk=31322029-63eb-4d40-ac…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/2300489?nl_pk=31322029-63eb-4d40-ac…>

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Ex-CFPB Chief Chopra Raps 'Totally Weird' Trump Shutdown
by Gunnar Larson 21 Feb '25

21 Feb '25

Ex-CFPB Chief Chopra Raps 'Totally Weird' Trump Shutdown <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/2300486?nl_pk=31322029-63eb-4d40-ac…> By Jon Hill Former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra knocked the Trump administration's efforts to shut down the consumer agency as a bizarre and potentially self-owning policy choice, warning Thursday that it will only hurt businesses and consumers. Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/2300486?nl_pk=31322029-63eb-4d40-ac…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/2300486?nl_pk=31322029-63eb-4d40-ac…>

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HERE'S YOUR CHANCE TO FIGHT CITY HALL
by Gunnar Larson 21 Feb '25

21 Feb '25

Art Director/Designer: Sidney Myers Copywriter: Evan Stark Agency: Doyle Dane Bernbach, Inc. Client: Whirlpool *HERE'S YOUR CHANCE TO FIGHT CITY HALL* If you have a product you are not happy with, what do you do? Sit and sulk? Moan to your next-door neighbor? Promise yourself that you'll never buy another product from the manufacturer? A lot of good that will do. No, Mr. and Mrs. Consumer, that's not the answer. If you have a gripe, let the manufacturer know. Call him up. Write to him. Keep after him until he does something about it. Because nothing bothers a reputable manufacturer more than dissatisfied customers. We at Whirlpool believe in putting our money where our mouth is. We believe we make the best appliances you can buy. Automatic washers, dryers, refrigerators, air conditioners, dishwashers, etc. And we also believe our Tech-Care Service specialists provide the best service in our field. In addition, we were the first to do away with the complicated standard warranty and replace it with a fully binding, easy-to-understand warranty letter. We were first to provide a free, nation wide telephone number (800-253-1301) for service information. And we were the first to have consultants answer your calls, thereby solving many of your problems right over the phone. But still and all, we know that you can't please all of the people all of the time. That's the reason for the blank letter on the facing page. If you have a gripe about us, we want to know so we can do something about it. Just write your complaint, tear out the page and mail it to us. If you know anything at all about Whirlpool, you know it won't be ignored. By the way, if you have something nice to say about us, we'd like to hear that too. *Steve Upton * *Vice President, Consumer Services Division * *Whirlpool Corporation *

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The Last Vietnam.
by Gunnar Larson 21 Feb '25

21 Feb '25

Art Director/Designer: Robert W. Wilvers Photographer: Paul Seligman Copyeditor: Gene Case Agency: Jack Tinker & Partners, Inc. Client: Rockefeller for President *The Last Vietnam. * We talk of Vietnam as we once talked of Korea. "Let us drag ourselves from this quagmire, and we will live happily ever after..." I am afraid that the next President will not escape so easily. *I say learn from Vietnam or be dammed to repeat it. * Our Vietnam policy was meant for the 1940's, for Western Europe, for the defense of democracies. Yet we apply it in the 1960's, in Southeast Asia, in defense of people who do not know what democracy means. And in wrapping this policy around Vietnam, we blinded ourselves to the real Vietnam. We assumed the enemy meant to seize land. We were wrong. He meant to disrupt government. We sent troops in overwhelming number. We were wrong. We shattered a small country's sense of responsibility. We were preoccupied with the changing premieres and presidents in Siagon. We were wrong. It was in the village and countryside where government failed. Now, peace give us a time to right those errors. To stop turning this war into an *American* war. To move Saigon toward reform. To build a strong and trusted village government. To secure the people from terrorism. And in Paris, to work patiently and persistently for peace. At home we must have candor and trust. Americans must believe in government again, and government must believe in Americans. The day must pass where press officers say, "The people I work for don't want to hear bad news." I say, face the truth. Trust the people with the truth. I say, do not fight change. *Guide* change. I say we can make this Vietnam the last Vietnam. And this is one reason why I run for President. *NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER*

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Why I Run.
by Gunnar Larson 21 Feb '25

21 Feb '25

Art Director/Designer: Robert W. Wilvers Photographer: Paul Seligman Copyeditor: Gene Case Agency: Jack Tinker & Partners, Inc. Client: Rockefeller for President *Why I Run. * America cries out for a leader. Events overwhelm us. Change outruns us. Headlines deliver us our daily jolt. "Things are in the saddle, and ride mankind" -- this warning we have let come true. I run for President because I do not believe this must happen to us. I believe we can recapture control of *things.* I believe we can end the drift, the doubt, the division. I intend to say how, here, in this newspaper. I intend to write that course I believe America must follow. My beliefs will not be tailored to please the voters of this region or that. What I believe in New York. I believe in Nebraska. And I will answer for it throughout the campaign. I do not take my case to Republicans alone. It is a nation and not just a party which needs leading, healing, uniting. I begin tomorrow, on a subject that has tormented us like none other in our recent history: Riot. *Nelson A. Rockefeller*

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Riot.
by Gunnar Larson 21 Feb '25

21 Feb '25

Art Director/Designer: Robert W. Wilvers Photographer: Paul Seligman Copyeditor: Gene Case Agency: Jack Tinker & Partners, Inc. Client: Rockefeller for President *Riot.* I am the only Presidential candidate who has had to cope with riot. It was 4:30AM, still dark, July 25, 1964. We got a call from Rochester, New York, a city of 300,000. The call was "Local police have lost control. Will State Police take over?" *By 9:00AM, 264 State Police had taken over, and the streets of Rochester were safe." * These men used no rifles, no shotguns, no tear gas. But they were not riot-trained. They made 900 arrests. They saved lives and they saved property. They were dubbed "the cool ones." I also called up 1600 National Guardsmen and stationed them outside the city. But we did not need to use them. How we faced this riot points up three principles of mine. One. Keeping order may be a stern side of government, but it is a vital side. I make no apologies to those critics who call me "Rocy the Cop." We will have order, and make no mistake about it. Two. Speed is the key. A small force, early, can restore peace, where a large force, later, could not. Three. A state which accepts *responsibilities* as well as *rights* will make sure that local police are cool, humane, well-trained. State police and National Guard must stand ready, behind them. The resort to the army - the spectacle of U.S. troops defending the U.S. from U.S. citizens - must be as rare as possible. We must find the roots of this lawlessness. And let's not fool ourselves. The roots are not in our courts, or in the myth of softness in high places. They are in the cities. They are poverty, injustice, rot. I believe we can cure these things. I understand, I sympathize with the hopelessness they breed. But *lawlessness* I will not stand. *Nelson A. Rockefeller*

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McConnell Stresses Courts' Role In Retirement Announcement
by Gunnar Larson 21 Feb '25

21 Feb '25

McConnell Stresses Courts' Role In Retirement Announcement <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/2300669?nl_pk=31322029-63eb-4d40-ac…> By Courtney Bublé Longtime Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell announced Thursday that he will not seek reelection next year and used the occasion to advise against questioning the "fundamental duty" of the courts. Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/2300669?nl_pk=31322029-63eb-4d40-ac…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/2300669?nl_pk=31322029-63eb-4d40-ac…>

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Lottery.com Exec Indicted Over Allegedly Bogus SPAC Filings
by Gunnar Larson 21 Feb '25

21 Feb '25

Lottery.com Exec Indicted Over Allegedly Bogus SPAC Filings <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2300695?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…> By Dorothy Atkins New York federal prosecutors unveiled criminal charges Thursday against Trident Acquisitions Corp.'s former CEO, accusing the executive of duping investors about the profitability of a 2021 take-public deal involving Lottery.com Inc. before cashing out and lying under oath while privately telling alleged co-conspirators he's in "deep, deep, deep, deep water." Indictment attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2300695?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2300695?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…>

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Intel, Israeli Ex-Exec End Bias Suit Over Pro-Hamas Sentiment
by Gunnar Larson 21 Feb '25

21 Feb '25

Intel, Israeli Ex-Exec End Bias Suit Over Pro-Hamas Sentiment <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2300753?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…> By Grace Elletson Intel Corp. and an Israeli former executive have agreed to shutter his suit claiming the tech giant fired him following complaints that his boss appeared to support Hamas after the militant group's October 2023 attack took place in Israel, according to a Thursday New York federal court filing. Settlement attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2300753?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2300753?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…>

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2nd Circ. Agrees Parts Of NY Ag Labor Law Can Stand
by Gunnar Larson 21 Feb '25

21 Feb '25

2nd Circ. Agrees Parts Of NY Ag Labor Law Can Stand <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2300241?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…> By Beverly Banks Portions of a New York agricultural labor law related to a card-check process for unionization and impasse arbitration can stand, the Second Circuit ruled, upholding a lower court's partial denial of an injunction bid from a farming group based on due process and other constitutional claims. Order attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2300241?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2300241?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a5…>

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