Americans for Financial Reform

Report Category: Fact Sheets

Crypto Spends Big Bucks in the Buckeye State

Cryptocurrency PACs have directed a vast share of their total spending into Ohio to target the Senate race between Brown and Husted. by Dustin Duong, Senior Research Associate With midterms days away, major cryptocurrency political action committees (PACs) have ramped up their spending in Ohio, where Jon Husted (R) is vying to prevent Sherrod Brown

Wall Street Is Coming for Your Childcare

Private equity has made a business of buying up the industries families can’t live without, and it has recently arrived in childcare. It’s the support system parents rely on most, which is exactly what makes it a target: firms move in where the need is greatest and the leverage over families is highest.

Timeline of attacks against the CFPB

The CFPB is under attack. Since the first weeks of the current administration, the Trump-appointed CFPB leadership and Republicans in Congress have worked to carry out the Project 2025 goal of dismantling the Bureau. While these efforts have been blocked in court, the Trump-Vought CFPB has continued to chip away at the agency’s staff, roll

Fact Sheet: Curbing Stock Buybacks Would Strengthen the Economy

Curbing stock buybacks would push companies to invest in their workers, productive capacity, and innovation. Stock buybacks are when a company purchases its own shares, resulting in fewer outstanding shares, an artificially higher share price, and higher executive pay.

The Crypto Oligarchs

A handful of crypto billionaires with extreme anti-democratic views stand to profit immensely from passage of the CLARITY Act – the massive deregulatory crypto bill poised for a Senate floor vote this year. The CLARITY Act was drafted largely by and for the crypto industry and its leaders. They and the President are doing everything they can to make it become law.