Hill Blast June 06, 2025

MPC Hill Blast: The Tell

There is a long history of detecting deception by finding the key inconsistency in what someone says. ...The latest example from the bank lobby is their overwrought protestations that adding the Marshall-Durbin Amendment (the Credit Card Competition Act) to the GENIUS Act would be a “poison pill” sinking the GENIUS Act.

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Hill Blast June 04, 2025

MPC Hill Blast: Military Families Need the Marshall-Durbin Amendment

hat message has come through loud and clear from the American Logistics Association and the Armed Forces Marketing Council. Those two groups represent military PX stores.

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Hill Blast June 02, 2025

MPC Hill Blast: Needing Dollars, Iran-Backed Militias Turn To Visa and Mastercard – WSJ

“Needing Dollars, Iran-Backed Militias Turn To Visa and Mastercard” In case you missed it, that was the headline of a May 31 news story from the Wall Street Journal. The story makes a number of revelations.

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Hill Blast May 29, 2025

MPC Hill Blast: Coalition of Large Tribes Supports the Marshall-Durbin Amendment

The Coalition of Large Tribes has endorsed the Marshall-Durbin Amendment to provide some competition to rein in huge credit card swipe fees.

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Hill Blast May 28, 2025

MPC Hill Blast: ‘Bill Aimed at Reducing Credit Card Swipe Fees Puts Chinese Company in Crosshairs’

Washington Times story says ‘Bill Aimed at Reducing Credit Card Swipe Fees Puts Chinese Company in Crosshairs.’

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Hill Blast May 27, 2025

MPC Hill Blast: Wall Street Doubletalk: Swipe Fees Won’t Go Down, But Rewards Will Go Away

The giant Wall Street banks and their “experts” are throwing every argument they can think of against credit card competition. Even when they blatantly contradict themselves.

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Hill Blast May 22, 2025

MPC Hill Blast: No Innovation in Payments Without Competition

Payments in the United States is long overdue for innovation, but one MPC member recently coauthored an article with the CEO of a stablecoin company that shows how long overdue we are for real change.

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Hill Blast May 19, 2025

MPC Hill Blast: Credit Card Giants Like to Pretend

The credit card giants like to pretend that reforming swipe fees will only help large businesses, but that's just a way to hide what they're doing right now.

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Hill Blast May 14, 2025

MPC Hill Blast: Native American Businesses Support the Credit Card Competition Act

Native American businesses get unfairly charged huge credit card swipe fees – just like off-reservation businesses. Here are some of their voices.

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Hill Blast May 12, 2025

MPC Hill Blast: Small Businesses Are ‘At a Critical Inflection Point’

A recent survey of small businesses found that while 71% have had increased or at least steady sales, 44% have seen profits fall, 91% have had increased operational expenses, 76% have expenses rising faster than sales, and 73% said “government tends to do more to disadvantage small businesses than it does to help small businesses.”

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