CMD NEWS ABOUT Economy

• Fox in the Henhouse: Koch-Backed Opponent of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Chairs Taskforce to Evaluate Its Regulations

  By David Armiak | February 10th, 2020 at 5:27 PM (CDT)

  The Koch anti-regulatory political network has given $63.6 million to groups that taskforce chair Todd Zywicki has held senior level positions in since 2008.

• Private Prison Giant GEO Group Gives to Super PAC Backing Susan Collins

  By Alex Kotch | February 6th, 2020 at 9:33 AM (CDT)

  The recent donation is one of many contributions that GEO Group has made via its subsidiaries, potentially skirting federal campaign finance rules.

• Centrist Third Way, Funded by Corporate Interests, Attacks Sanders in Iowa

  By Alex Kotch | January 31st, 2020 at 1:23 PM (CDT)

  Third Way, a think tank funded by the likes of Amgen, Pacific Gas & Electric, and Reynolds American tobacco, is warning Iowa voters about the democratic socialist candidate.

• Right-Wing Business Billionaires Launch Attack on Bernie Sanders

  By Alex Kotch | January 28th, 2020 at 8:22 AM (CDT)

  Yesterday, the billionaire-funded Club for Growth Action released an ad criticizing Sanders’s health care and climate change policies.

• Ohio’s Right-Wing Buckeye Institute Goes National

  By Don Wiener and Arn Pearson | January 27th, 2020 at 12:01 PM (CDT)

  The Ohio-based Buckeye Institute has nearly doubled its revenues in recent years and is increasingly taking its pro-corporate fights to other states.