In the News: Here’s Everything Wrong With Trump’s Crypto Meme Coins (RollingStone)| Americans for Financial Reform
The combination of Big Banks, Big Tech, and Big Data have converged to rampantly collect and commodify people’s most private information and financial data. These companies are surveilling every bank transaction, mouse click, cell phone tap, and online purchase.| Americans for Financial Reform
Donald Trump and Melania’s new crypto meme coins are an ethical disaster and ripe for corruption — and they could cost his supporters dearly.| Rolling Stone
The Department of Treasury’s Federal Insurance Office (FIO) released a report revealing how climate change is making homeowners insurance more expensive and harder to obtain across the United States. The report analyzes zip code level data—much of which was also released—obtained from insurers by FIO and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC).| Americans for Financial Reform
The CFPB’s proposal would prohibit financial companies from forcing consumers to surrender their fundamental rights in take-it-or-leave-it contracts that are used for everyday services such as bank accounts, credit cards, and payment apps on smart phones.| Americans for Financial Reform