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November 15, 2023 | RDP Newsletter
We Can’t Let Budget Negotiations Make A Punching Bag of Agency Capacity
As negotiations to prevent a government shutdown heat up once again, Democratic and Republican Representatives in the House are poised to make a play on agency resources.
October 26, 2023
Julian Scoffield Vishal Shankar Julian Harden
Newsletter Consumer ProtectionCryptocurrencyHealthRevolving Door
A Wolf In A Moderate’s Clothing, And Other Quick Hits
This week’s newsletter discusses a wolf in a moderate’s clothing, opposition to healthcare revolvers, and new polling suggesting widespread support for the CFPB.
September 13, 2023
Elon Musk’s Private Interests Should Not Dictate Public Policy
New revelations over Musk’s interference in Ukraine warrant Congressional oversight over the billionaire.
August 09, 2023
The Small Business Administration Needs To Increase Its Capacity, Not Lending Authority To Fintechs
Continued reliance on underregulated financial technology companies could stand to further harm the agency’s reputation and goals for lending equity.
July 17, 2023 | The American Prospect
The Climate Denialist Think Tank That Might Produce The Next FTC Commissioner
It turns out that radical ideology IS allowed at the FTC.
June 30, 2023
Hack Watch: The Dangerous Cult Of The Entrepreneurial “Innovator”
It shouldn’t take a catastrophe for reporters to critically engage with entrepreneurial notions of so-called innovation.
June 21, 2023
In Case Of Emergency Spin Revolving Door
Despite venture capitalists, investment pundits, and other crypto firms alike all acknowledging that the jig is up, regulatory revolvers remain undeterred in their willingness to lend their reputations, expertise, credibility, and relationships to keep the crypto con alive.
June 02, 2023
Hack Watch: Larry Summers Thinks Starving Older Americans Serves A "Useful Function"
Summers’ evaluation of the deal President Biden struck with House Speaker McCarthy includes tepid support for work requirements.
May 26, 2023 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Dylan Gyauch-Lewis Julian Scoffield
Hack WatchNewsletter Economic PolicyExecutive BranchMedia Accountability
Hack Watch: Everyone’s So Worried About The President Getting Sued About the Debt Ceiling, No One Seems to Have Noticed He Already Was
May 10, 2023
What The SVB Collapse Says About Crypto’s “Most Stable” Stablecoin
The March 2023 collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) — aside from foregrounding the hypocrisy of neoliberal pundits and libertarian venture capitalists alike — spotlighted the instability of the cryptocurrency industry’s most ostensibly stable offering. Hidden within the uncertainty of SVB’s fate following a $42 billion withdrawal frenzy was a similar crisis of confidence for Circle Internet Financial and its stablecoin, USD Coin (USDC).
April 10, 2023
The Larry Summers-Linked Fintech Firm That Bought A Bank
By doing so, Jiko became one of the, if not the, first fintech company to buy a national bank.
March 31, 2023
Hack Watch: Steve Rattner, SVB, And Selective Expertise
A wealth manager with a history of breaking the rules should not be the authority on bank regulation.
March 01, 2023 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Dylan Gyauch-Lewis Emma Marsano Ananya Kalahasti Julian Scoffield
Newsletter Congressional OversightConsumer ProtectionExecutive BranchFintechHealth
What Makes a Good Executive Branch Official?
If we had to make one overarching argument about what makes a good executive branch official, whether at a massive cabinet-level department, a medium-sized agency, or a tiny commission, it is this: a habit of skepticism about corporate claims.
January 13, 2023
Hack Watch: New York Times Uses Bahamian Third Person To Carry Weight For A Con
December 21, 2022
Hannah Story Brown Andrea Beaty Dorothy Slater Dylan Gyauch-Lewis Julian Scoffield KJ Boyle Max Moran Timi Iwayemi Toni Aguilar Rosenthal
Newsletter Ethics in GovernmentExecutive BranchLarry SummersRevolving Door
RDP’s 150th Newsletter: Our 2022 Revolving Door Superlatives
How better to mark the darkest day of the year than with a bit of dark humor? This winter solstice, we present our 2022 Revolving Door Superlatives, where we spotlight the most craven, captured, and corrupt personnel and policy debates of this past year. From Revolver of the Year to 2022’s Worst Look to our Biggest Personnel Nightmare Entering 2023, we have a positively ghoulish assemblage of honorees for your perverse reading pleasure. Take comfort, dear reader, in this at least: the days are only getting longer from here on out.