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During the USPS’ Holiday Surge, Thank a Postal Worker
During the holiday season, postal workers move over approximately 15 billion pieces of mail and packages and handle more than 400 million packages every single week. Take a moment to send a note of thanks to postal workers this holiday…
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AFREF Speaker Series: Are We on the Brink of a 2008-Style Financial Crisis?
We appear to be in the midst of a speculative stock market bubble centered on AI. Does that mean we are about to have a 2008-style financial crisis? Join us for a conversation with Damon Silvers about the moment we are in and the steps that regulators should take to guard against the risk of a catastrophic financial crisis. Mr. Silvers was the Deputy Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the 2008 bank bailout and for many years directed financial markets policy at the AFL-CIO. He brings to bear his experiences with the 2008 crisis as well as the…
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FIRE SALES TO WALL STREET: A Review of Government-Sponsored Residential Note Sales
Growing Wall Street control of single family homes is a contributor to our housing crisis, with mega single-family investors (those who own more than 1,000 homes nationwide) controlling an estimated 446,000 homes as of January 2025. Nationally, the presence of corporate landlords in a community has been associated with raised rents, junk fees, reduced maintenance,
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The American Prospect: Monetizing Regime Change
For an insider trader in a traditional financial market, said Mark Hays, the associate director for cryptocurrency and financial technology at Americans for Financial Reform, “unless you’re in a position to know [specific financial] information, it can be difficult to be an insider trader.”
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NPR: Crypto soared in 2025 — and then crashed. Now what?
Mark Hays, a consumer finance advocate at Americans for Financial Reform, says that the most recent crash is yet another reminder that crypto has long relied on rampant risk-taking.
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American Banker: From cafés to Pokémon Go, banks rethink physical spaces
Expert Quote: “This practice violates the law that separates banking from commerce and is the kind of unfair competition that antitrust laws were meant to stop,” the nonprofit Americans for Financial Reform has said.
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We’ll All Pay the Cost for Crypto Corruption
The crypto industry is determined to ram through legislation in Congress that gives the industry carte blanche operating power, without any true oversight, regulation, or accountability. And, adding insult to injury, the industry is trying to block the ability for states to step in and fill federal gaps in oversight.
