By Meron Lemmi While a growing number of households are turning to buy now pay later loans just to keep food on the table, the nation’s top executives are cashing in with incomprehensibly astounding compensation packages. In 2025, more than two-thirds of workers were living paycheck to paycheck — up 4 percent from the year
Mark Hays, Associate Director of Cryptocurrency and Financial Technology at Americans for Financial Reform, guested on the “Gotcha!” podcast to speak with host Alix Dunn about the risk and dangers associated with cryptocurrency.
Your retirement savings are supposed to be the safest money you’ll ever have — not a roll of the dice. The whole point of a 401(k) and other retirement plans is to let you gradually build wealth that brings economic security in your golden years.
The Dangers of Private Equity Entering 401(k)s By Andrew Cullen For a long time, retirement accounts like 401(k)s have served as a way for workers to invest and grow wealth for the future. However, Trump recently issued an executive order that will allow risky private equity investments, like private equity and cryptocurrency, into these plans.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is expected to let hundreds of corporations and financial institutions off the hook for violations it was investigating. That means the millions of people who were counting on the agency for protection will be left without help, especially as it braces for layoffs of 90% of CFPB staff.
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act marks its 15th anniversary this week. This milestone is an opportunity to reflect on the critical role of effective financial regulation in creating a fairer economy that allows people and communities to flourish. We need it to protect people from day to day abuses that make it harder for families to make ends meet, live in affordable housing, or save for retirement. And we need it to prevent systemic misalignments that give Wall Street free rein to increase profits by extracting wealth at our expense—while increasing the likelihood of devastating financial crises.