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February 21, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week Five: Musk, Crypto, Tax Fraudsters, Fossil Fuel Cash In While Workers Lose Out
This week, we’ll focus on how DOGE’s priorities seem to reflect Musk’s grudges and interests in a less efficient government. Trying to be thorough without being totally thorough (the reign of ignorant terror is as vast as it is deep and consequential), here are several of the most salient examples of the Trump’s administration’s prioritization of corporate interests at the expense of the public.
February 12, 2025
The Dire Consequences For A Society With No Department of Education
With rumors growing that Trump plans to sign an executive order which would effectively dismantle the Department of Education, this factsheet highlights the likely deleterious effects for millions of students across the country.
October 30, 2024
Corporate Crackdown Successes: The SEC Engaged In Record-Setting Enforcement Actions Under The Biden Administration
Under the Biden administration, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) achieved record levels of enforcement. It recovered record sums from imposing penalties, had a high count of enforcement actions, and significant numbers of white collar criminals were disbarred from executive board seats. The SEC has secured these accomplishments through effective litigation, emphatic rulemaking, and rigorous enforcement of the law.
September 26, 2024
Inside 'Tax Prom': The Corporate Sponsors and Award Recipients Shaping U.S. Tax Policy
Featured are two charts, one laying out the 2024 corporate sponsors of the Tax Foundation’s Tax Prom 2024 event, and the other laying out every recipient of the Tax Foundation’s Distinguished Service Award since 1941.
September 19, 2024
Tom Wheeler’s False Promise: How a Leading Telecom Lobbyist Became FCC Chair
Despite promises to crack down on telecom companies, as FCC Chair Tom Wheeler approved corporate mergers and now continues to profit from the telecom sector.
September 19, 2024
Voters’ Populist Mood Is (Still) Reflected In Polling Data
As The New Presidential Nominee, VP Harris Can Secure The Support Of The Majority Of Americans By Pursuing A Corporate Crackdown
August 01, 2024
Unmasking FCC's Revolving Door with Telecom Giants
From conflicts of interest to corporate lobbying, decades of bipartisan betrayal at the FCC have undermined the public trust and favored Telecom titans.
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 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
May 28, 2024
What Jamie Dimon Gets That Matt Yglesias Doesn’t
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon understood that no Vice Chair for Supervision could make Jerome Powell’s Fed take regulation seriously. Why didn’t Matt Yglesias?
March 21, 2024
RealPage Enlists Ex-FTC Revolvers From BigLaw Firm Gibson Dunn To Fight Tenant Lawsuits
Facing an existential legal threat, the scandal-plagued software company has hired price-fixing monopolists’ favorite lawyers.