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November 25, 2025
DOJ’s RealPage Settlement Doesn’t Achieve The Corporate Crackdown Tenants Deserve
Trump’s appointees have negotiated a settlement which requires restrictions on RealPage’s use of nonpublic rental data and current lease information, but appears to stop short of financial penalty or admission of wrongdoing.
September 05, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
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Corruption Calendar Weeks 32-33: An Administration Full of Grifters and Grim Reapers
The Trump White House is increasing our risk of premature death while helping its wealthy allies get richer quicker.
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.
July 23, 2025 | The American Prospect
Home Insurance Executives Are Raking It In—At Your Expense
Performance-based pay packages incentivize claim denials and other harmful practices.
July 14, 2025
Don't Let Home Insurers Fool You. They're More Profitable Than Ever
The industry paints a gloomy picture, but nationwide, property insurers still cleared $25.4 billion in underwriting profit in 2024, and their net investment income surged to $164.3 billion.
June 23, 2025
Mapping the Home Insurance Crisis: A Closer Look at North Carolina
North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey has called for abolishing the Federal Insurance Office. Is it because the data that FIO released makes him look bad?
June 23, 2025
Attacks on Federal Climate Data Will Accelerate a Financial Crisis
The DOGE playbook for climate disasters: Gut federal climate data, let insurers jack up rates, and bury the financial results.
May 30, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
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Corruption Calendar Week 19: “We Reject Regulators.” Pardon Me?
This week the Trump administration deepened its wildly corrupt and lucrative crypto grift, sought to further enrich wealthy supporters at the direct expense of working households, and continued to pardon white-collar criminals who don the red MAGA cap.
April 25, 2025
Uh Oh! Abundance Group Does Not Like Abundance
The Breakthrough Institute’s critique of Abundance is so bad that I feel the need to defend Klein and Thompson.
April 24, 2025
Mapping the Home Insurance Crisis
A series of interactive maps and tables to help people make sense of the climate change-fueled home insurance crisis.
March 12, 2025
Federal Understaffing Spotlight: Housing and Urban Development
HUD’s enforcement power and ability to carry out federal programs have been weakened for years by staffing shortages. This blog overviews the key reasons why HUD needs more staff.
February 26, 2025 | No Corporate Cabinet
No Corporate Cabinet: Bill Pulte
FHFA Nominee & Extremely Online Scion Of A Real Estate Empire
February 12, 2025
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President Trump Would Like You To Say Goodbye To Our Food Inspectors
This week has seen further escalations in an already dramatic first month of Trump 2.0. In particular, in addition to “cartoonishly corrupt” moves like signing an order to halt enforcement of a bribery ban, the Trump administration has used a number of methods to reduce enforcement capacity across federal agencies, building on the hiring and funding freezes Trump ordered on his first day in office. (While judges have readily agreed to challenges to the funding freeze, it appears the administration is illegally withholding funding, anyway.)