Here Are the Corporate Elites Hosting Biden’s Manhattan Fundraisers
More than a dozen high-powered lawyers and executives, including the man who inspired Gordon Gekko, will help “Middle-Class Joe” raise campaign cash in early January.
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Here Are the Lobbyists and Corporate Execs Collecting Checks for Pete Buttigieg
As the Buttigieg campaign stops releasing its bundler names and blocks press from fundraising events, here are some of the pharmaceutical and finance executives behind its rise in the big money race, and three attorneys whose donations were returned.
House Dems Try to Sneak Through Weak Financial Regulator Bill
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is a critical derivatives regulator, and a House reauthorization fails to fortify it.
McKinsey Employees Open Their Wallets for Alumnus Pete Buttigieg
Executives from the consulting firm’s energy, banking, and health care practices have maxed out to Mayor Pete's presidential campaign.
Presidential Candidates Get Cash From Major Fossil Fuel Investors
Upper-level employees and executives at 14 hedge funds and private equity firms that are propping up the oil and gas industry have made large contributions to eight Democratic White House hopefuls, most who have taken the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge.
Mike Pence Set to Mingle With Wall Street Billionaires at Major Financial Conference
Pence will attend the Delivering Alpha conference along with hedge fund billionaires tied to some of the gravest problems humanity faces today.
Hedge Fund Cash Flows to Presidential Candidates—at Puerto Rico’s Expense
Of the Democratic field, only Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have returned the money.
Delaney Super PAC's Biggest Donor is Wife of Former Health Care CEO
The $50,000 donation is one of many ways individuals tied to the health care industry are supporting the anti-Medicare for All candidate.
Op-Ed: Ditch the Unemployment Rate
Does President Trump really have the benefit of a strong economy heading into the 2020 election year?
Big Banks Are Divesting From Private Prisons, Thanks to Anti-ICE Activism
So far this year, six major bank have made broad public commitments to no longer provide new financing to the private prison industry after current financial agreements expire.