A 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…
Read moreAt 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…
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