Kansas GOP Sen. Pat Roberts represents Koch Industries home state in Congress — and pushed to let the billionaire brothers write off their donations to secretive political groups.
David Sirota
Dec 07, 2017
As Republican lawmakers prepare to finalize a sweeping tax cut bill, their former aides are back in congressional offices, now representing the real estate, tech, health care and private jet management industries.
Alex Kotch
Dec 06, 2017
Venezuela is said to be in selective default for failing to make $200 million in coupon payments due on global bond issuances.
Anthony Del Giudice
Dec 06, 2017
Make no mistake: Blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies are heading to mainstream audiences in 2018.
Tariq Alwahedi
Dec 06, 2017
A last-minute provision would give the GOP’s fossil-fuel donors a new tax break.
Josh Keefe
Dec 05, 2017
There’s a blurry line between the Kochs’ academic philanthropy and political activism, as academics from free-market centers at George Mason University (funded by the billionaire brothers) have joined the Trump administration this year.
Alex Kotch
Dec 05, 2017
GEO Group is building its rehabilitation brand, buying halfway houses and day-reporting centers — positioning itself to treat many of the victims of America's opioid crisis.
Lydia O'Neal
Dec 05, 2017
Companies should not be allowed to hide data breaches from their customers.
Craig Spiezle
Dec 05, 2017
How to send packages during peak shipping season without breaking the bank.
Steve Leavitt
Dec 05, 2017
GOP lawmakers from two states hit hard by the tax initiative may end up on the panel that will shape the bill. Will they be pushed to make changes?
David Sirota
Dec 04, 2017
Stealth foreign influence? There’s nothing stealthy about it: It’s a big, open, bipartisan business, according to an IBT/MapLight investigation.
David Sirota
Dec 04, 2017
Local governments and consumer protection groups wrote to the FCC Monday morning, asking the commission to delay its scheduled Dec. 14 vote on chairman Ajit Pai's proposal to repeal the Obama-era “common carrier” rules.
Jay Cassano
Dec 04, 2017
Documents reviewed by IBT show Bermuda and the Cayman Islands trying to prevent a crackdown on offshore tax maneuvers.
David Sirota
Dec 02, 2017
The Senate tax bill would keep the carried interest loophole and also allow some hedge fund and private equity managers to claim a new deduction. Backing the bill? GOP senators who benefited from campaign donations from Stephen Schwarzman, who heads the world’s largest private equity fund.
Josh Keefe
Dec 01, 2017
Trump's move to kill “net neutrality” rules has drawn outrage — but an obscure lawsuit could remove all the internet’s remaining free speech and consumer protections.
Jay Cassano
Dec 01, 2017
Uber covered up a massive hack that exposed the data of 57 million users.
Josh Stella
Dec 01, 2017
In a new survey, nearly all millennials polled said they have or planned to donate before the end of 2017.
Robin Saks Frankel
Dec 01, 2017
The Charles Koch Institute shared a Facebook post bemoaning subsidies to the farmers who bring you Thanksgiving. But Koch Industries has received $400 million in government handouts in the last decade.
Josh Keefe
Nov 30, 2017
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich told IBT that the Democratic Party “is just a big fundraising machine” now, and that the failure to fix structural problems in the economy helped Donald Trump win the White House.
David Sirota
Nov 30, 2017
Holiday shopping is in the home stretch, and there are still plenty of savings to be had in December.
Marissa Tarleton
Nov 30, 2017
Agencies like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were set up to be independent and insulated from White House political pressure. But by naming only interim, acting chiefs, Trump keeps them on a short leash.
David Sirota
Nov 29, 2017
Provocateur James O’Keefe’s group, which tried to fool the Washington Post, has a history of failure — but its funding from far-right billionaires has kept growing.
Alex Kotch
Nov 28, 2017
Studies state most people with micromanagers quit their job within the first two years.
Nupur Singh
Nov 28, 2017
In a 2014 hearing, Mick Mulvaney hoped for the "continued viability and availability" of controversial payday and installment loans. Now Mulvaney might be in charge of policing those same products.
Josh Keefe
Nov 28, 2017
Wealthy GOP families and Republican politicians enable the group to spread its free-market principles and funnel thousands of dollars into student government elections to elect conservatives.
Alex Kotch
Nov 28, 2017
Streaming services are about more than just the music.
Golan Shaked
Nov 27, 2017
Current Chief of Staff Doug Friednash came to the Colorado governor's office from lobbying firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. The governor's office hired BHFS to work on the state's behalf. On Monday, it was announced Friednash was heading back to his old firm.
Josh Keefe
Nov 27, 2017
In a new study, researchers quantify the way firms respond to political risks. The results may scare proponents of a government free of private sector influence.
Lydia O'Neal
Nov 23, 2017
Actor Jason Segel told IBT that the Weinstein sexual harassment scandal tells powerful men, “You can't just take what you want.”
David Sirota
Nov 22, 2017
If you don’t have an Amazon strategy, you don’t have a business strategy, says the co-author of “The Amazon Marketplace Dilemma.”
James Thomson
Nov 21, 2017
