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January 30, 2026
RELEASE: Trump’s New Fed Chair Nominee Kevin Warsh Is a Hack with Ties to Would-Be Greenland Profiteer
Warsh’s record suggests commitment to class and personal self-interest, not a broader dedication to an intellectually consistent view of the public interest.
January 22, 2026 | Dollars & Sense Debrief
PODCAST: RDP's Kenny Stancil Discusses Home Insurance Profiteering on the D&S Debrief
Revolving Door Project senior researcher Kenny Stancil joined Economics for the People to discuss his recently published article, “Forsake Some, Fleece the Rest,” with Dollars & Sense editor Chris Sturr.
January 16, 2026
The Technobabble Defense
How companies cry “innovation” to defend their lawbreaking
December 31, 2025 | Dollars & Sense
Forsake Some, Fleece the Rest
How U.S. Home Insurers Are Responding to Climate Change
December 18, 2025 | The American Prospect
Dylan Gyauch-Lewis Toni Aguilar Rosenthal
Op-Ed Ethics in GovernmentFinancial RegulationRevolving Door
Another Biden Financial Regulator Spins Through the Revolving Door
It’s hard times at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), one of the three principal bank regulators in the country, along with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Reserve. All three, plus other financial institution regulators at the National Credit Union Administration and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, have been gutted to varying degrees over the first year of Trump 2.0.
December 17, 2025
Newsletter Corporate CrackdownEthics in GovernmentExecutive BranchFinancial RegulationIndependent Agencies
Cutting Crooks Some Slack
The administrative state’s Kafkaesque transmogrification into the mafia state
October 31, 2025 | The American Prospect
Op-Ed BankingConsumer ProtectionEconomic PolicyExecutive BranchFinancial RegulationIndependent Agencies
Making Banking Supervision Suck Again
Willfully blinding bank examiners could send us hurtling to yet another financial crisis.
August 26, 2025
Supreme Court, Jay Powell, & Media Enabled Trump’s Attack on Lisa Cook
Institutions have allowed Trump to attack the Federal Reserve’s Independence. They must stand up for Lisa Cook.
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 14, 2025
Oligarchs and the Trump Admin: Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are billionaires who made their initial fortune from a 2004 lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg, accusing him of stealing their idea in the creation of Facebook. The Winklevoss twins have since expanded their fortunes through an $11 million purchase of Bitcoin in 2013, founding the venture capital firm Winklevoss Capital, and founding cryptocurrency exchange Gemini. In June 2024, the Winklevoss’ each tweeted an endorsement of Trump’s candidacy and donated $1 million in bitcoin to his campaign.
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 18, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 26: Crypto Week Marks Washington’s Insatiable Appetite For Grift
While the House of Representatives was busy passing three industry-written pieces of legislation which all but ensure crypto’s complete capture of the federal government, Trump netted close to $100 million from sales of his crypto memecoin. There’s no doubt that the favor machine will keep whirring as long as the zeroes keep adding up for Trump and his family.
July 16, 2025 | Citations Needed
PODCAST: Timi Iwayemi Discusses Corporate Self-Regulation and the Fine Art of ‘Preempting’ Public Outrage on Citations Needed
Revolving Door Project’s Timi Iwayemi joined Citations Needed to shed light on corporate efforts to shape laws and regulations in their favor, with a particular focus on the crypto industry’s political influence strategy.
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.