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What’s at Stake at the Upcoming Tesla Shareholder Meeting
Months after Elon Musk’s self-serving deployment of DOGE to gut federal agencies inspired a song titled “Hostile Government Takeover,” Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting on November 6th will be another flashpoint in the world’s richest billionaire’s attempt to consolidate power over…
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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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CNBC: Take Back Tesla campaign urges shareholders to reject Musk $1 trillion pay plan
Additional groups in the coalition include Americans for Financial Reform, the Communication Workers of America, corporate watchdog group Ekō, People’s Action and Stop the Money Pipeline.
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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
“By shutting down the CFPB, Vought is just inviting big banks, predatory lenders, and Big Tech to nickel and dime working families, who are already struggling to make ends meet under Trumpflation.”
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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.
