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May 08, 2026
Sean Duffy Vacations Amidst Airline Disasters
Over the past seven months, there have been 3 commercial airline crashes resulting in 11 deaths, along with numerous near-misses and deadly small plane crashes. Rather than addressing the ongoing deterioration of America’s transportation infrastructure, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy has been on vacation and filming a reality TV show with his family, all seemingly paid for by the very companies he should be regulating.
April 24, 2026
MAGA Reaffirms Allegiance To Crypto
The bitcoin conference in late April is a chance for Republicans to show their commitment to the crypto industry. Here’s a who is attending:
March 13, 2026
The Technobabble Defense: Cryptocurrency
How the cryptocurrency industry lied about it’s supposed innovation in order to escape basic government oversight.
February 09, 2026
The AI Lobbyist Starting An Abundance Nonprofit
Next American Era is hoping to help push abundance policies into the mainstream. It’s headed by OpenAI lobbyist Cheri Bustos
January 29, 2026
What We Mean When We Talk About Corporate Power
How should we define corporate power, and how should we attempt to understand its growth over time? Here’s some metrics.
December 15, 2025
TRACKER: Cuts to Corporate Enforcement Capacity
This tracker records cuts made by the Trump-Musk administration to enforcement capacity at agencies responsible for overseeing corporations’ activities and identifying wrongdoing.
“Enforcement capacity” refers to staffing and funding dedicated to monitoring, oversight, investigation, and preparation of cases against corporations for breaking the law. Cuts to and attacks on enforcement capacity can include firings, buyout offers, funding cuts, reorganizations, and other steps the Trump administration has taken to date.
November 19, 2025 | The American Prospect
Henry Burke Dylan Gyauch-Lewis
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Companies Are Trying to Hide Their Ties to Larry Summers
Some fintech and energy startups haven’t announced that Summers is leaving; they just took him off their websites.
October 17, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
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Corruption Calendar Weeks 38-39: Your Wish, My Command
Big Oil is getting the white glove treatment, the Trump sons are cashing in on the White House and the shutdown threatens housing stability.
September 15, 2025
CNN Allows Sinema Skate Through Recent Tapper Segment
CNN and Jake Tapper invited former Senator Kyrsten Sinema on to discuss crypto and AI. He failed to disclose her conflicts of interest
September 04, 2025
Who is Behind the Growing Abundance Movement?
Who is behind the fast-growing abundance movement? Who are the billionaires and media figures helping it gain popularity?
August 26, 2025
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Revolving Door Project, Open Markets Institute Release Report on Abundance Agenda
This report sets out to excavate the proposed policy prescriptions of the broader abundance movement, and thoroughly address their flaws.
August 20, 2025 | The American Prospect
Henry Burke Dylan Gyauch-Lewis
Op-Ed Anti-MonopolyEconomic MediaEthics in GovernmentExecutive BranchFinancial RegulationFintechTech
What Trump Learned From Silicon Valley
Before DOGE’s lawbreaking spree, there was ‘blitzscaling.’
August 07, 2025
Uber Wrong
In his latest broadside against the left, Mattew Yglesias took aim at longtime critics of Uber’s blatant lawbreaking. In Yglesias’s view, these critics who range from anti-monopoly voices like Lina Khan to anti-corruption experts like our own Jeff Hauser and academics focused on financial regulation like Professor Hillary Allen, constitute a coterie of economics-hating zealots eager to make people’s lives worse.
July 30, 2025
Harvard’s Former President Praises Trump’s Repression of Academic Freedom
Larry Summers has embraced Trump’s war on higher ed, backing the fascist takeover of Columbia and proposing the same thing for Harvard
July 02, 2025
Abundance Praise for Trump Appointees
Abundance supporters were big backers of Trump appointees including Chris Wright, Doug Burgum and Jay Bhattacharya. Now that the Trump administration has (predictably) engaged in blatantly destructive actions, they’re hoping you’ll forget their earlier support of these Trump toadies.