Automatic Web Traffic Generator

As more money flows into campaigns, Americans worry about its influence

While perceptions of influence are subjective, there’s clearly more money in the U.S. political system now than at any time since the campaign finance reforms of the 1970s, according to a new Pew Rese... read more

Tesla: Is There Really Gold In EV Paradise?

It will dilute its shareholders soon, that's a certainty. But still… Tesla is a business with great potential. I'm a bit sad myself. I would like to put some money into Tesla just to make things ... read more

The Finance 202: Voters send mixed messages on Wall Street regulation

Typically, the panel has been a magnet for more business-friendly newbies, who use the assignment to raise money from the industry. Rion Dennis, legislative and advocacy strategist for Americans ... i... read more

With Democrats well-positioned to take the House, Republicans scurry to save the Senate

Needing to gain 23 House seats for control, Democrats were burrowing deep into ... more than $5 billion nationwide, an increase of more than $1 billion from the 2014 midterm, according to the Center f... read more

Concern about money’s influence on politics crosses partisan lines

Embed read more

EDITORIAL: Secret political donors to judges hurt the image of the bench

A study by the American Constitution Society found that as the use of TV ads in judicial campaigns went up, the willingness of judges to side with criminal defendants went down. A separate study found ... read more

How Baby Boomers Broke America

Only a democracy and an economy that has discarded its ... of American progress. When they created ways to package mortgages into securities that could be resold to investors, for example, it was init... read more

South Asia: High Costs Of Not Trading With Neighbors – Analysis

The writers keep their distance from politics but one could argue that even the Pakistan army stands to make more money from more trade since it ... the trust deficit ” because others worry about its ... read more

Supreme Court Could Snuff Out Last Ember of the Campaign Finance System

If the Supreme Court lifts the overall limit on campaign financing, the number of donors able to purchase access and influence with a single contribution of a few million dollars would fit into a smal... read more

Pershing Square Holdings Ltd. (PSHZF) CEO William Ackman on Q3 2018 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Despite that incremental growth relative to its peers, the company only trades at 19x free cash flow. It's one of the ... buyer-seller who seems to have more influence over stock price then ... read more

Andrew Gillum Is At Home With His Blackness

His politics flow ... American politics. His campaign is an exercise in recasting populism in a black idiom. In political terms, this manifests as a friendly pragmatism. “We’re running a campaign that ... read more

How the Koch brothers hide their big money donations

Libertarian billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch were among the first to grasp the political potential of social welfare groups and trade associations — nonprofits that can spend money to influ... read more