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June 20, 2024
Déjà Vu All Over Again: Cryptocurrency Edition
We already know how the industry’s money gets lawmakers to launder its image, let’s not fall for it again.
June 19, 2024 | The American Prospect
Economic Punditry And The “Hotdog Guy” Problem
Why centrist opinion columnists have no one to blame but themselves for public misconceptions about the economy.
June 14, 2024
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The Mainstream Media Keeps Burying the True Cost of Fossil Fuels
What would it take for them to consistently name and shame the corporate villains responsible for catastrophic climate change?
June 14, 2024
Wide-Ranging Polling Data Demonstrates Voters’ Populist Mood
As corporate profits soar, living conditions continue to deteriorate, and the wealth gap grows, we are in a populist moment. The majority of Americans understand that corporations are ripping them off, and want their representatives in government to do something about it.
June 13, 2024
License To Drill
Fossil-fueled Democrats want to use unverifiable “certified gas” schemes to undermine one of Biden’s most important climate moves.
June 12, 2024 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
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Utilities Doubling Down On Fossil Fuels? That’s A Junk Fee!
In late May, Brian Deese, the former director of President Biden’s National Economic Council and current MIT fellow, wrote about “The Next Front in the War Against Climate Change” for The Atlantic. Deese explained that while the Inflation Reduction Act’s incentives have stimulated clean energy demand “beyond my wildest hopes,” he still finds himself “lying awake at night, worried that America could still fail to meet its climate goals.”
June 12, 2024
Amicus Spotlight: Loper Bright & Relentless
21 right-wing groups linked to court-whisperers want SCOTUS to make its most dangerous regulatory power grab yet.
June 12, 2024
Amicus Spotlight: Moore v. United States
A dozen court whisperer-backed groups and MSNBC superstar Neal Katyal want SCOTUS to make wealth taxes illegal.
June 11, 2024 | Slate
The Worst Possible Trump Attorney General Is the One He’d Be Likeliest to Pick
Donald Trump’s Department of Justice was a nightmare. Jeff Sessions, Trump’s first attorney general, dismantled civil rights and civil liberties protections, instituted heinously cruel border policies, and vociferously attacked the right to vote. William Barr, Sessions’s ignominious successor, then used his time at DOJ’s helm to overtly weaponize the department against voters and Trump’s political opponents.
June 07, 2024
Neoliberal Champions Under the Microscope: Hackwatch’s Latest Exposés
How Jamie Dimon, Adam Posen, Ken Rogoff, and Catherine Rampell Have Been Trying To Shape the Narrative on Economic Policy in Bad Faith
June 05, 2024 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Trump Is The Corporate Convict Candidate
Trump now holds the unique honor of being the first United States president convicted of a felony. This is a golden opportunity for the Biden campaign to highlight the glaring distinction between the candidates: Trump is a corporate criminal hellbent on using the presidency to further the interests of himself and other corporate criminals. President Biden has leveraged executive branch power to dismantle criminal practices that pad the pockets of corporations. After some initial hesitancy to touch on Trump’s conviction, Biden rightly appears poised to make this a forefront issue in the campaign.
June 04, 2024
RELEASE: Justice’s Raid of Cortland Management Hopefully Foretells an Energized Crackdown on Price-Fixing
The DOJ’s raid on Cortland is an encouraging sign that the Biden administration is taking the threat of price-fixing in the rental market seriously. While President Biden’s housing platform is focused on the ever-important housing supply issue, increasing supply alone will not decrease rents when large swaths of the market are colluding instead of competing. Biden must call out corporations like RealPage and Cortland and their senior executives by name for their apparent rent-gouging and leaving American families in desperate straits.
May 31, 2024
Do As I Say, Not As I Do
Larry Summers wants to excise politics from Harvard’s campus. May as well start with the man in the mirror.