Tailoring Banking Regulations to Accelerate the Next Crisis
Regulators have taken several actions that needlessly increase the likelihood of another financial crisis.
Finance, Competition, and Consumer Protection
A Fair Deal for Farmers
Through an analysis of two agricultural markets, this report illuminates the concerning trend of corporate consolidation in agriculture—and the damaging impact this trend has on independent family farms.
Forced Arbitration: What You Need To Know
Forced arbitration agreements make it harder for workers and consumers to challenge predatory practices, wage theft, and discrimination.
Toward a Robust Competition Policy
Entry barriers in many sectors—especially in communications services, health care, and information technology—have created an environment in which firms can earn profits well above competitive levels.
Fact Sheet: Toward a Robust Competition Policy
The rise of firms earning monopolistic returns calls for new policy measures to reduce barriers to entry and increase competition.
‘It’s a New Day’: In Conversation With Chairwoman Maxine Waters
This week, Rep. Maxine Waters discusses her top priorities in her new role as chairwoman of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee—and how she plans to hold the Trump administration accountable.
How Workers Get Paid Is Changing: Consumer Protections Need to Catch Up
Workers are increasingly receiving their compensation through payroll cards, and policymakers should take steps to ensure the safety of these financial products.
Provider Consolidation Drives Up Health Care Costs
Americans would benefit from stronger antitrust enforcement, more competition, and fairer prices in the markets for hospital and physician services.
Big Business’s Bonanza Week in the Supreme Court
The new 5-4 conservative majority is likely to rule against the legal rights of workers and consumers.
Hollowing Out the Volcker Rule
Regulators’ proposal to weaken the Volcker Rule would expand loopholes, narrow definitions, give banks leeway to govern themselves, and introduce more risk into the banking sector.
Corporate Long-Termism, Transparency, and the Public Interest
Boosting SEC-regulated transparency on environmental, social, and governance matters can help align the interests of investors, management, and the public towards shared long-term success.
Indexing Capital Gains to Inflation Will Only Further Rig the Economy Against Workers
The Trump administration’s plan to allow capital holders to index their assets to inflation is the latest attempt to benefit the wealthy as it takes steps to cut workers’ pay and retirement savings.
Big Business Rules American Agriculture—and Congress Doesn’t Seem to Care
Farmers are feeling the substantial consolidation across many agricultural markets, yet the issue is conspicuously absent from the current Farm Bill debate.
How a GOLIATH Act Could Restore Consumer Rights
Restoring Americans’ ability to hold companies accountable would rebuild consumer power and trust in government.
5 Questions for the Fed’s Vice Chairman for Supervision
The Fed’s vice chairman for supervision will face questions on a range of financial regulatory issues when he testifies on the Hill this week.