“When Visa and Mastercard raise interchange fees, banks want to issue more cards because they make more on each swipe,” Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told the card executives.
NEW BOSTON, Texas When TexAmericas Center acquired Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant in 2010 as a result of the of an Army downsizing and realignment process a few years earlier, they did not just obtain many acres of land and former Army facilities. They ended up in their possession a considerable amount of rail assets.
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PHARMA, MANUFACTURERS BLAST ADMINISTRATION OVER VACCINE PATENT WAIVERS: The Biden administration on Wednesday reversed course and said it supports waiving patent and other intellectual property protections for Covid-19 vaccines in a bid to ramp up production of the shots around the globe a victory for progressives who had pressured the administration and potentially a major blow for the pharmaceutical industry, which had lobbied heavily against the waiver.