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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 28/09/2026

Is the extraordinary run-up in AI-related valuations sustainable, or is it the latest chapter in a familiar boom-bust pattern? Join AFREF and the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College for an in person discussion on Oct 14th. RSVP: buff.ly/CP1cVQo

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 24/09/2026

Private equity has exploded from managing less than $1 trillion in 2004 to over $13 trillion today. They now control companies employing over 13 million workers. We know ultra-wealthy executives won't change on their own. That's why we need #SWSLA

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 24/09/2026

For years, private equity firms have treated our economy like a rigged casino —loading companies with debt, stripping them of assets, and walking away with massive profits while workers and communities suffer. The Stop Wall Street Looting Act will change that. #SWSLA

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 24/09/2026

The Stop Wall Street Looting Act of 2026 (#SWSLA) would curb Wall Street's predatory practices and help build an economy that works for everyone.

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 23/09/2026

The watered down greenhouse gas emissions standard the California Air Resources Board is considering proposing would fail to require major polluting industries, like oil and gas firms and financial companies, to disclose most emissions. More in our report: buff.ly/xFjQoA6

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 16/09/2026

If enacted, H.R. 10184 would severely limit the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s ability to hold big banks and tech companies accountable and to protect people from unfair, predatory, and discriminatory financial practices.

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 16/09/2026

House republicans are using the few legislative days before the midterms focused not on pressing affordability issues, but on yet again attacking the #CFPB.🙄 🎬 @sylviagarcia.house.gov enters our opposition letter with allies into the record 🙏 More on Substack ⬇️ buff.ly/gP9U5by

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 15/09/2026

"The Senate on Tuesday voted to block the Clarity Act from advancing, dealing a major blow to the crypto industry’s push for a comprehensive market structure framework." www.cnbc.com/2026/09/15/s...

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 15/09/2026

The crypto industry’s so-called CLARITY Act was just voted down in the Senate! 🎉 This is a big win.

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 15/09/2026

"This bill poses a massive risk to families, to our economy, and to our national security. We need crypto legislation that stops political self-dealing...but this bill would turbocharge Donald Trump's unprecedented corruption." - @warren.senate.gov

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 15/09/2026

"While Donald Trump is raising costs for working people, Trump is also using the presidency to make himself richer. And he's added crypto to his ways to cash in." - @warren.senate.gov

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 10/09/2026

Starting shortly! This is going to be a great discussion on the influence of crypto money on our political system and what can be done about it. Tune in at 6 PM ET / 3 PM PT Zoom link: buff.ly/uKRf6qf

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 09/09/2026

Tomorrow! September 10 at 6pm ET / 3pm PT, AFR’s Patrick Woodall joins MediaJustice for "The Crypto Money Corrupting Your Politicians," a conversation about the industry’s political influence and holding people in power accountable. Zoom link to join: buff.ly/uKRf6qf

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 08/09/2026

As the Senate rushes toward a vote on the CLARITY Act, please join tomorrow's briefing to find out how this push from the crypto industry to write its own rules will embolden self-dealing at the highest levels of power and pose harm everyday people. Zoom rsvp link: buff.ly/klQbmMh

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 04/09/2026

A new poll shows that voters are extremely concerned about the impact of PE taking over companies in key sectors like health care and housing. 83% of voters are concerned about PE takeovers in healthcare. Read more here: buff.ly/y7llGCg

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 01/09/2026

Investor backed childcare puts profits over children. Things got so bad at NYC Bright Horizons centers parents call it “baby prison.” www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 28/08/2026

A sobering new report from @ips-dc.org lays bare the scale of excessive CEO compensation at America's largest low-wage employers. The data is alarming: CEO pay has skyrocketed 41.4% since 2019 while worker wages have barely kept up with inflation. Read the full report ⬇️ ips-dc.org/report-execu...

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 26/08/2026

Highly recommend this @FT piece for a deep dive on how the recent controversy around Mark Walter is just one example of how private credit, insurance, and profiteering are putting policyholders at increased risk ⬇️ buff.ly/wNXcWCw

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 26/08/2026

It should go without saying that allowing the megarich to use insurance companies like their personal piggy banks is a very bad idea. (Video: @MelodyGutierrez via @FoulTerritoryTV )

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 21/08/2026

We know from our polling this isn't what people want. Even in our polarized political climate, there is a near-unanimous shared belief that it is important to regulate financial services and products to make sure they are fair for consumers. 🧾 Polling: ourfinancialsecurity.org/resources/20...

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 21/08/2026

While everyday people struggle to make ends meet, the Trump administration and its allies in Congress continue to look for ways to dismantle the only agency with the sole mission to protect people from the scams, discrimination, and abusive financial practices.

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 21/08/2026

We need the CFPB now more than ever. If the so-called CFPB Reform Act of 2026 is passed, it will undermine the agency's ability to hold big banks and tech companies accountable and to protect people from unfair, predatory, and discriminatory financial practices.

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 21/08/2026

Today, AFR joined dozens of consumer, community, and civil rights organizations in urging the House Financial Services Committee to reject the CFPB Reform Act of 2026, a new proposal that, if passed, would severely limit the CFPB's ability to do its job. ourfinancialsecurity.org/releases/

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 17/08/2026

Since 2012, the CFPB has published consumers’ requests for help including complaint narratives detailing their experiences. "The CFPB just made those accounts invisible. The discrimination doesn’t disappear with them; it just gets harder to prove." -James Wylie, @natfairhouse.bsky.social

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 17/08/2026

#ICYMI, on Friday, the CFPB announced a move to shield large corporations from public scrutiny by ceasing publication of complaints submitted to the CFPB as well as data that has been critical to holding corporations accountable.

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 05/08/2026

Reminder! Thursday 2pm ET, join AFREF's Caroline Nagy and housing experts from LA, Houston, and NYC to discuss what affordable housing providers and cities can do to push back against rising costs and fight for affordable housing security for all. RSVP: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Webinar: Skyrocketing insurance costs hitting renters: How cities and affordable housing providers are fighting back.
Thursday, August 6th 2pm ET / 11am PT

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 31/07/2026

Yesterday's private bailout of a former FTX employee's hedge fund is not an isolated incident. Margin debt is at an all time high, and investors across the board are borrowing money to bet big on AI.

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 30/07/2026

The top 5 tech companies' debt is already greater than the subprime mortgage market at its peak before the 2008 crash. As the AI bubble burst looms, AFREF's Maya Jenkins & @openmarkets.bsky.social Matt Scherer explore consequences in today's @BostonGlobe op-ed: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/30/o...

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 27/07/2026

We have a real chance, against huge odds, that the crypto industry's deregulatory agenda can be blocked this year. Key Senators may still cave in the face of constant and overwhelming industry pressure. We need your help to push back!

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 27/07/2026

The so-called CLARITY Act is fatally flawed. It contains weak or nonexistent consumer protections, gaps in illicit finance rules, huge exemptions, and lax oversight. If the bill passes, the industry's predatory business model could be locked in for a generation.

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 23/07/2026

If confirmed, Trump's USPS Board nominees could seek to put in place postal policies that would disrupt rural mail service and interfere with election mail. ourfinancialsecurity.org/news/press-r...

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 15/07/2026

Rep. Rashida Tlaib connected record complaints and roughly $16 billion in fraud losses last year to pulled-back enforcement, dropped cases, staff cuts, and revoked guidance. ourfinancialsecurity.org/resources/as...

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 15/07/2026

@pressley.house.gov confronted Vought for rescinding a rule that kept medical debt off credit reports. Families facing cancer or an accident need relief—not another way for debt to follow them.

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 15/07/2026

Ranking Member @repmaxinewaters.bsky.social reminded Vought why the CFPB exists: it has obtained more than $21 billion in relief for over 200 million people. Four in five voters support the CFPB after hearing about its mission. ourfinancialsecurity.org/resources/20...

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 14/07/2026

Our new poll with Center for Responsible Lending shows 80% of midterm voters support the CFPB. “There is a massive disconnect between Congressional Republicans’ push to loosen Wall Street regulations, and what midterm voters actually want.” -Tom Feltner, AFR ourfinancialsecurity.org/news/press-r...

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 01/07/2026

Nearly nine in ten Democrats (89%) and three quarters of independents and Republicans are concerned about the dangers of laws about crypto shaped by campaign donations from the crypto industry. ourfinancialsecurity.org/resources/20...

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 01/07/2026

The crypto industry and its allies in Congress are pushing for a vote on the CLARITY Act on the Senate floor. The bill as currently written contains no provisions to address the corruption or conflicts of interest that the industry is known for.

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 01/07/2026

“Voters have seen serious crypto corruption and high ranking government officials raking in profits while everyday people experience crypto-fueled losses and scams.” -Mark Hays, AFR's associate director of crypto & fintech www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 26/06/2026

"Congress and future regulators need to step in — ideally before regular investors suffer significant losses." - Natalia Renta, AFR Read our recommendations on what Congress can do to protect retirement savers in this new climate ⬇️ buff.ly/aSjwFjr

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 26/06/2026

An estimated 33.5% of the US stock market is passively owned. Millions of invested retirees, workers and their families rely on a set of financial industry intermediaries, regulators and lawmakers to protect this investment strategy. But new changes now threaten that.

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 26/06/2026

Today Rep. Maxine Waters & Natalia Renta, AFR's associate director of corporate governance & power, sounded the alarm on how new changes to the rules governing passive investments will harm workers, retirees and families. Full testimony on AFR's website: buff.ly/F3KuPTX

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 11/06/2026

New legislation to raise the tax on corporate stock buybacks from 1% to 4% would generate $166 billion in revenue over the next decade, and encourage companies to reinvest in workers and innovation instead of inflating their share prices. buff.ly/I1DErfl

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 11/06/2026

Instead of investing in workers or innovation, firms use stock buybacks to juice executive compensation & manipulate market valuations.

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 11/06/2026

Stock buybacks are when a company purchases its own shares, resulting in fewer outstanding shares and an artificially higher share price.

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 11/06/2026

Stock buybacks have hit a record high. In the past 8 years, 100 of the biggest US corporations have used the Trump-GOP tax cuts to help repurchase $4.8 trillion of their own stock, according to a new analysis by @4taxfairness.bsky.social Report: americansfortaxfairness.org/new-analysis...

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 10/06/2026

To make matters worse, SpaceX is pushing the boundaries of how much control one person can have over a public company. SpaceX is going public with Musk controlling 85% of votes. He is the only one who can fire himself as CEO or board chair. buff.ly/dGvoBko

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 10/06/2026

Concern over Friday’s SpaceX IPO continues to grow. @warren.senate.gov is now calling on the SEC to delay, citing risks to investors and market stability. Letter: buff.ly/SjzuSaf Why is SpaceX IPO a big deal? 🧵⬇️

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 02/06/2026

This Consumer Advocacy Day advocates from across the nation are in DC to demand Congress: ✅️ Restore the CFPB’s full funding level to 𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭 12% ✅️ Protect its independent funding mechanism ✅️ Defend the agency’s critical complaint system ✅️ Stand up for the CFPB & #ProtectConsumers ! #CAD2026

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 15/05/2026

@smith.senate.gov introduced a version of @durbin.senate.gov‘s No Bailout for Crypto Act, which would have prevented the use of taxpayer funds to bailout crypto firms when they crash (it was voted down on partisan lines)

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Americans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 15/05/2026

The CLARITY Act is bad from the start - it leaves crypto consumers w/ less protection and more risk, and contains loopholes gutting protections for all investors, even if they never touch crypto.

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