July 16, 2024
Graft And Scams Rule The Republican Party. Let Them Have It.
Biden’s Futile Attempts To Win Back The Hearts Of Long-Gone Crypto Scammers Won’t Work. They Will, However, Allow The Democratic Party And Its Base To Get Fleeced.
June 20, 2024
Déjà Vu All Over Again: Cryptocurrency Edition
We already know how the industry’s money gets lawmakers to launder its image, let’s not fall for it again.
May 22, 2024
RDP Work Round-Up: Memorial Day Edition
As we head into Memorial Day Weekend, we’re taking some time to review recent work at Revolving Door Project—boosting pieces we want to make sure readers here see, and staying focused on priority areas for our team. Here’s hoping the extra time in your week gives you some space to go down a revolving rabbit hole (or two) with us, whether on the crypto industry’s continuing efforts to influence how they’re regulated, or on Scott Sheffield, the former fossil fuel CEO engaged in an oil price-fixing scheme.
April 05, 2024
Maybe Financial Regulators Shouldn’t See The Best In Everyone
Last Friday, former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair decided to offer her two cents on the broader conversation surrounding the recent sentencing of Sam Bankman-Fried . Her takeaway from SBF’s trial and conviction on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy? We need financial literacy classes for children.
March 22, 2024
Crypto Is Hoping You Won’t Notice Their Redoubled Influence Campaign
The media has done a good job highlighting the cryptocurrency industry’s continued attempts to influence elections but crypto’s hiring of political insiders continues to go unnoticed.
January 24, 2024
Press Release: The Revolving Door Project Calls On Senate To Delay Confirmation Of Sean Patrick Maloney Until Crypto Ties Can Be Investigated
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee Waved Maloney Through Without So Much As A Whisper About His Connections To Coinbase, The Cryptocurrency Firm That Has Employed Him Since His Nomination Was Announced.
January 12, 2024
AI Evangelists Won’t Stop Highlighting The Danger Of Their Technology. Can 2024 Be The Year Journalists Stop Parroting Their Claims?
The zero-interest-rate epoch of Silicon Valley is over, and with it, startup grifters are working overtime to ensure their promises of technological revolution are worthy of investment. Can the media learn something from the crypto bubble and start interrogating those espousing revolutionary technological progress?
December 21, 2023
Bitnomial CEO Cheers After Disturbing Day at CFTC
Dissenting Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero, meanwhile, warned that the agency’s approval of a vertically integrated crypto market threatens to open a Pandora’s box.
December 08, 2023
Credulous Press Shouldn’t Buy That Binance Will Be OK
Overemphasizing the fines leveled against the crypto exchange ignores the true point of the settlement: regulatory compliance.
December 07, 2023 | The American Prospect
Wall Street’s Favorite Financial Regulator May Be Looking for a New Job
CFTC Chair Rostin Behnam’s term doesn’t end until 2026, but there are rumblings of an early exit to the private sector. Place your bets where he’ll end up next!
December 07, 2023
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Press Release: The Revolving Door Project, A Government Ethics Watchdog, Alerts Media Of Possibility That CFTC Chair Rostin Behnam Is Considering Leaving Government To Cash Out In Private Industry
The Revolving Door Project, A Government Ethics Watchdog, Alerts Media Of Possibility That CFTC Chair Rostin Behnam Is Considering Leaving Government To Cash Out In Private Industry
November 22, 2023
PRESS RELEASE: Larry Summers’ Ascent to OpenAI Board is Awful News for Humanity
Revolving Door Statement on Crypto proponent Larry Summers joining the board of Sam Altman’s OpenAI
October 27, 2023 | The American Prospect
Will Anyone Hold Larry Summers Responsible for His Promotion of a Crypto Scam?
The prominent centrist economist was affiliated with the disgraced crypto firm DCG for over half a decade.
October 27, 2023
Larry Summers And The Crypto Con
October 26, 2023
Julian Scoffield Vishal Shankar Julian Harden
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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.