At his Senate confirmation hearing this morning, Deputy Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling spoke clearly about the importance of President Trump’s initiative to democratize access to alternative investments in 401(k) retirement savings plans: “We're working very hard at the Department…
Read moreThe so-called "experts" at the Yale Budget Lab have spent months warning that pro-growth tax policy will doom the economy. Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) isn’t buying it. Watch: "The Yale Budget Lab is just another Democrat think tank full of…
Read moreThis week, Pinpoint Policy Institute submitted a formal comment letter (available here) to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Credit Rating Provider (E) Working Group urging the deferral and redesign of its proposed CRP Due Diligence Framework, a proposal…
Read more"Last fall, I wrote about a small faction within the Retired Public Employees Association (RPEA) of California that was raising $350,000 for what it called a ‘forensic audit’ of CalPERS. The report was commissioned from Ted Siedle, a former SEC…
Read moreEarlier this month, an unauthorized third-party breached the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) systems, exposing 2.1 million insurer regulatory filings PDFs, 40,000 quarterly filings, and over 45,000 licensed rating agency files from Moody’s Fitch, S&P, and others. To add…
Read moreEarlier this month, Colorado Governor Jared Polis vetoed Senate Bill 26-134, legislation that would have prohibited interchange fees from being charged on the sales tax portion of credit and debit card transactions. While supporters framed the proposal as a way…
Read moreHighlights: After two decades of litigation, a federal judge granted preliminary approval of the $38 billion Visa/Mastercard interchange fee settlement, delivering real merchant relief through the courts, not Congress. The settlement ends the "Honor All Cards" rule, cuts interchange rates,…
Read moreA new summary from the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) highlights the regulatory alarm around private credit, and concludes that the data do not support the current panic. Economists Lawrence Powell and Julian Morris broke down their recent…
Read moreA new white paper from the International Center for Law & Economics finds that life insurers with larger private credit allocations are stronger, not weaker, undermining the case for heavy-handed regulatory intervention. Using National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) annual…
Read more“Sen. Steve Daines (R., Mont.) is leading a group of Senate Republicans in support of a Trump administration proposal that would expand access to alternative investments in 401(k) retirement plans, arguing that American workers deserve access to the same investment…
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