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Commentary Credit Rating Agencies Poised to Give AI Companies Inflated Grades
We have all suffered the consequences of overhyped credit ratings before. When the rating agencies awarded a safe investment seal of approval on risky subprime mortgage securities in the early 2000s, it gave investors and the financial system reassurance while the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and collateralized debt obligations became ticking time bombs. Are we about…
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What you need to know about the post office and election mail for 2026 and beyond
Under Postmaster General David Steiner, the post office began making changes to the way it handles federal election mail that would have let it refuse to deliver ballots to certain voters.
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SEC Proposes Eliminating Important Safeguard Against Private Equity Bribes, Putting Pensions at Risk
The SEC is proposing to get rid of the “pay-to-play” rule, which prohibits asset managers from providing services to a government client (including state and local public pensions) for two years after making a political contribution to certain elected officials or candidates. If successful, the SEC would eliminate an important safeguard against private equity, venture…
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Insurance insiders speak out: The industry will not protect society from climate change
By Alex Martin, Policy Director, Climate Finance and Caroline Nagy, Associate Director of Housing Policy Today, senior level insurance insiders issued a wake-up call in a new report, “Sounding the Alarm,” released by Inside Track, that details their decades of cumulative experience in the industry. Their exposé confirms what we’ve long suspected: our long-term climate…
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Fighting back against the skyrocketing insurance costs hitting renters
While the issue of availability and affordability for single-family home insurance has received significant attention, spiking insurance premiums are also causing dramatic impacts on rental housing, which is home to over 100 million people in this country, or 35 percent of the U.S. population.
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Hiding the CFPB’s history doesn’t erase financial hardship in Trump’s economy
The Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) are blocked in the courts, months after missing its promised deadline to completely shut down the agency. Now, the Trump CFPB is hard at work rewriting the agency’s history to be an industry apologist and rubber stamp rather than a consumer watchdog.
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Anthropic’s Message: Everybody Slow Down — Except Us! Tech Oligarchs’ Bid for Control at Our Expense
By Natalia Renta, Associate Director for Corporate Governance & Power Tech oligarchs made headlines in September by calling for a slowdown in AI development given concerns about its grave threats to humanity. Despite Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei being a prominent voice in that call, he is still planning to push ahead with his company’s initial public offering (IPO)…
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Workers’ Retirement Savings & Tech Oligarchs
The looming Anthropic IPO and other mega IPOs pose significant risks to working people’s retirement savings.
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State Corporate Law & Tech Oligarchs
Anthropic is legally incorporated in Delaware, the chosen state of incorporation for a supermajority of companies that go public. In recent years, tech oligarchs have challenged Delaware’s status as the state of choice for public company incorporations, triggering a race to the bottom in state corporate law that Delaware has not been immune to.
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It’s Past Time for Wall Street Looting to Come to an End
People are struggling with rising costs, with the affordability crisis exacerbated by the Trump administration’s actions to prioritize Wall Street and corporations over people and communities.
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Brand new window dressing doesn’t cover crypto bills glaring flaws
Late Sunday night, Senate Republicans and the White House dropped new text for the CLARITY Act, the crypto-industry drafted bill slated for a key vote in the Senate tomorrow. Dropping brand new text 40 hours before the vote is an attempt to cover up the massive shortcomings, risks, and harms of the crypto bill and…
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With few legislative days remaining, Republicans in Congress attack consumer protections, not affordability
Congress created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) as an independent and adaptable federal watchdog with the sole mission to stand up for everyday people trying to borrow safely and save for the future. Until the recent actions of this Congress and the Trump administration, the CFPB carried out this mission faithfully, efficiently, and successfully.
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Bloomberg Is Right: Cutting Bank Capital Risks Another Crisis
Bloomberg’s Editorial Board recently delivered a blunt warning that the Trump administration’s fixation with weakening the safety and soundness of the banking system by cutting capital requirements is “courting a banking crisis.”
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Congress is Pushing Another Round of Risky Wall Street Bank Deregulation
Last month—and on the sixteenth anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the fifteenth anniversary of the day the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened its doors—the House majority advanced legislation to weaken major safeguards established after the last financial crisis.
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Everyone’s Talking About Private Equity in Housing: Here’s What You Need to Know
Private equity firms are major players in the rental housing market. Here’s how private equity ownership works, how it harms tenants, and the organizing strategies and policy responses that could help.
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