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Crypto Legislation Must Address the Rampant Fraud at Crypto Kiosks
Sometime after the shutdown dust settles, the Senate is expected to consider legislation to give a congressional seal of approval to cryptocurrency despite the widespread fraud and risks to everyday people and the financial system.
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Rising Property Insurance Premiums: The Uneven Risks to Household and Systemic Financial Stability
Introduction Property insurance is growing more expensive and harder to obtain throughout the U.S. Climate change and the rising costs of severe weather damage are a crucial cause, but racial and economic inequities within the property insurance market are an important part of the puzzle, and they have been too frequently overlooked. In particular, recent
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NetworkWorld: BlackRock’s $40B data center deal opens a new infrastructure battle for CIOs
Private equity firms have accounted for 80-90% of total data center merger and acquisition activity since 2022, according to a report by Americans for Financial Reform. Transaction values reached $73 billion in 2024, up from $26 billion in 2023, according to Synergy Research Group.
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The Well News: White House Budget Chief Announces Plan to Close Watchdog Financial Agency
“For nearly fifteen years, the [Consumer Financial Protection] Bureau has worked to make sure financial firms don’t get away with ripping people off. It created rules to prevent fraud and abuse, and it has returned over $20 billion to people who had been swindled by predatory finance. By shutting down the CFPB, Vought is just…
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Green Central Banking: US retreat from climate regulation could put economy under stress, experts say
“It’s easier to make an ideologically driven decision, to ignore the problem as it’s growing and manifesting, if you don’t have the expertise in the room,” said Alex Martin, policy director of climate finance at Americans for Financial Reform.
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Fact Sheet: CLARITY Act Worse than Last Year’s FIT 21 Crypto Deregulation
From Bad to WorseKey Differences Between Crypto-Backed CLARITY Act and FIT 21 Deregulation Click here for a PDF of this document. This year’s crypto market structure legislation promoted by the industry shares many of the flaws of last year’s crypto legislation, but the deregulatory elements in the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025 (H.R.
