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March 17, 2026
Mapping Home Insurance Regulation
Differences in state regulations play a major role in the growing crisis over home insurance, which is closely linked to the climate emergency propelled by fossil fuels.
March 17, 2026
Kenny Stancil Fletcher Calcagno Aya Dardari Xaver Clarke
Report Climate and EnvironmentCorporate CrackdownFinancial RegulationHousingRevolving Door
Tracking State Insurance Commissioners
State insurance commissioners cannot tackle the deeply intertwined crises of fossil fuel-driven climate change, insurance rate hikes and cancellations, and housing injustice on their own. But their role in aggravating or ameliorating problems deserves greater scrutiny.
March 17, 2026
RELEASE: Home Insurance Regulation Blunted by Revolving Door Activity and Insufficient Resources. New Tools Highlight Scale of Problems
It’s a lot easier to be an ambitious, pro-consumer and pro-climate regulator when you aren’t trying to preserve friendships with profit-maximizing insurance CEOs.
March 13, 2026
The Technobabble Defense: Cryptocurrency
How the cryptocurrency industry lied about it’s supposed innovation in order to escape basic government oversight.
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 Winklevosses each tweeted an endorsement of Trump’s candidacy and donated $1 million in Bitcoin to his campaign.