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SpaceX Took Official Step To Go Public, But Being a Public Company Isn’t What It Used To Be
Elon Musk’s SpaceX took the first official step to go public yesterday by confidentially filing paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
AFR in the News
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Medium: The Ouroboros Economy: How Corporate America, Wall Street, and AI Companies Are Eating Their Own Customers
Sources and references: World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report 2025; Bureau of Economic Analysis PCE data (Q4 2025); Federal Reserve Bank of Boston credit card research (Hagler and Patki, 2025); Federal Reserve Bank of New York Household Debt and Credit Report (Q4 2025); Goldman Sachs AI productivity analysis (2026); National Bureau of Economic Research…
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Chief Investment Officer: SEC’s New Forced Arbitration Policy Puts Everyday Investors at Risk
Wider adoption of forced arbitration would erode trust in the capital markets, as well as being harmful to individual investors, writes a corporate governance advocate – By Natalia Renta, associate director of corporate governance and power at the Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund.
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Senator Jeff Merkley: New Merkley, Raskin Legislation Bans Gambling on Elections, Sports, War, and Government Activity
“Prediction markets have turned democracy itself into a casino by allowing gambling on American elections, government actions, or military intervention,” said Patrick Woodall, managing director at Americans for Financial Reform. “Government officials should not be able to leverage their access to confidential information to game prediction markets and unfairly enrich themselves. The STOP Corrupt Bets…
Letters to Congress: AFR Opposes H.R. 8286, an Anti-ESG Bill
