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November 05, 2025

The SEC Is Demolishing Investor Protection, Threatening Capital Formation & the U.S. Economy

Like Trump’s demolition of the East Wing of the White House, Trump’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)—led by his Chair, Paul Atkins—is demolishing investor protection, which has been the SEC’s primary mission…

Fact Sheets

November 05, 2025

The SEC’s Attempt to Kill Securities Class Actions Through Mandatory Arbitration Violates Congressional Action

Introduction Class actions “play an essential role in deterring securities fraud and compensating victims for their losses.”[i] Congress recognized this fact thirty years ago when it passed the Private Securities…

Fact Sheets

November 04, 2025

This Veterans Day, The Trump Administration Can Honor the Military Community by Protecting and Strengthening the CFPB

Service members, veterans, and their families are disproportionately targeted by financial scams and financial predators. That’s painfully obvious whenever one walks outside the gates of a military base: paycheck lenders, check…

Fact Sheets

October 30, 2025

We Must Regulate Crypto As It Exists Today

Introduction On October 31, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto released the white paper introducing the world to Bitcoin. The problem for crypto enthusiasts is that Bitcoin today bears no resemblance to Bitcoin…

Fact Sheets

October 29, 2025

Thin Ice: How October’s Crypto Rout Exposes Fragilities in Pending Market Structure Legislation

On October 10, President Trump impromptu announced another set of proposed tariffs – this time on China at a rate of an additional 100 percent. The surprise declaration sent crypto markets…

Reports

October 29, 2025

Key Questions That the Senate Should Ask Trump’s FDIC Chairman Nominee Travis Hill

For more than 90 years, the FDIC has been the gold standard in protecting Americans’ savings, the banking system, and the economy from banking crashes and disasters. That’s because it has consistently…

Fact Sheets

October 09, 2025

Paul Atkins is Politicizing the SEC

Introduction Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul Atkins is fond of saying that it is a new day at the SEC. His agenda demonstrates that what he means is…

Fact Sheets

October 01, 2025

The SEC Must Not Kill The CAT

Introduction On May 6, 2010, nearly $1 trillion of stock market value was temporarily lost.[1] Some stocks inexplicably plummeted to $1 per share while others skyrocketed to more than $100,000…

Fact Sheets

October 01, 2025

Wall Street Banks Are Trying to Return to Dangerously Low 2007 Capital Levels, Again Endangering Main Street Jobs and Homes

Let’s be clear about what is happening with capital at the largest U.S. banks: those banks and their army of lobbyists – and allies in the Trump administration and at the banking…

Fact Sheets