A new paper makes the case that financial regulators are ignoring the significant risks from a warming planet and even from efforts to green the economy.
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Posted inPolitics
Chuck Schumer Has an Important Choice to Make on Regulatory Personnel
By custom, the Senate minority leader has broad authority to name commissioners to independent agencies. Schumer must select Democrats willing to take on corporate power.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Big CEOs Persuade the SEC to Tame Shareholder Activism
The Business Roundtable’s vow to be kinder corporate actors was a fig leaf for building fortresses around management decision making.
Posted inEconomic Policy
When the Watchers’ Watchers Look the Other Way
The board charged with overseeing the firms that audit corporations has become a cushy landing place for Republican politicos averse to enforcing its rules.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
JPMorgan Gets Back Into the Electricity Business
An El Paso, Texas, electric utility is being purchased by an investment fund with deep, undisclosed ties to the big bank.
Posted inImpeachment
Protect the Whistleblowers—and All Workers Who Speak Out
These government officials—like airport and oil rig workers, like Harvey Weinstein’s employees—need legal protections when they see something wrong.
Posted inDay One Agenda
Overhaul the Business of Wall Street
Remaking the financial system does not require any new laws.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Potential Nominee for Democratic Slot on the SEC Troubles Advocates
Urska Velikonja, a law professor, has a scant public record on securities policy matters.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The SEC Remains a Secondary Concern to Chuck Schumer
The Senate Minority Leader mismanaged an appointment to the agency last year, keeping a Democratic seat open for months. Will he do the same again?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Can Democrats Stop McConnell and Trump’s Quiet Regulatory Takeover?
Republicans have stymied the filling of Democratic seats in independent agencies. There doesn’t appear to be any plan to confront this.