Highlights: The NAIC — once a voluntary cooperative of state regulators — has quietly transformed into a Delaware-chartered corporation generating $161 million annually, operating as a de facto national insurance regulator with no public accountability. Through a coercive accreditation program,…
Read moreHighlights: Warren's war on discounts: Senator Warren's crusade against "dynamic pricing" is really a crusade against basic supply-and-demand economics — the same mechanics behind happy hours, sale prices, and early-bird specials. The data is clear: Studies from Harvard, the University…
Read morePinpoint Executive Director Eric Ventimiglia today published the following op-ed in the Washington Examiner: “A nonprofit organization called the National Association of Insurance Commissioners is responsible for the rules that ultimately affect consumers’ insurance premiums. These rules and standards govern…
Read moreHighlights: Katherine Van Dyck built her career at the American Economic Liberties Project (AELP) — a group funded by over $9 million from George Soros and other liberal foundations, whose leadership includes Lina Khan's former Chief of Staff and a…
Read moreA new analysis from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation provides new data estimating the negative economic impact of raising taxes on carried interest - an important contribution to the debate after the Yale Budget Lab - recently in the news for…
Read moreA new analysis from the Digital Progress Institute finds that the NAIC’s credit rating framework is unaccountable, potentially captured, and bad for American consumers. Last week, Joel Lauren Thayer, President of the Digital Progress Institute, published an antitrust case study…
Read moreThis week, the podcast Conservative Crossroads, hosted by the Ethics and Public Policy Center’s Henry Olsen, held a debate between Oren Cass, the founder of American Compass and American Tax Reform founder, president, and CEO Grover Norquist on a simple…
Read moreHighlights Congress voted to kill the Biden OSHA Heat Rule: On July 21, the House Education and Workforce Committee passed H.R. 6213, the Heat Workforce Standards Act, which would prohibit OSHA from finalizing the Biden-era heat standard or any substantially…
Read moreHighlights GAO reports that since 1955, NAIC has been exempt from filing an IRS Form 990 disclosure. GAO finds that several nonprofits doing similar work file it every year. According to GAO, NAIC does not disclose executive compensation, keeps its…
Read moreHighlights: Trump administration wakes up on chemicals: A senior Commerce official publicly acknowledged past administrations failed to recognize how foundational the chemical industry is to aerospace, defense, pharma, and manufacturing. EPA's TSCA reviews have handed China a competitive edge: Overly…
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