Hillary the Hedge Fund
Short selling—borrowing an investment and betting it will go down in value before you owe it back—is extremely dangerous, as the trajectory of GameStop stock has shown over the past…
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Are You Ready for Giving Tuesday?
Americans are the most generous people in the world. Nothing illustrates that better than Giving Tuesday, a philanthropy tradition started in 2012 as a way to fund nonprofits focusing on…
Happy Birthday, InfluenceWatch!
Since launching launched three years ago on August 31/September 1, 2017, InfluenceWatch has grown to more than 7,500 pages and over 2,000 full profiles. For increasing numbers of the media,…
Democracy Alliance Conferences on InfluenceWatch
The Democracy Alliance, a donor collective that steers contributions to left-of-center organizations, holds semi-annual conferences for donors and organization representatives. Beyond providing a forum for speakers and panelists, the conferences…
InfluenceWatch Podcast Episode 16: Cambridge Analytica
In this episode: Trump-connected political consultancy and data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica has singlehandedly dropped Facebook’s stock value over 10 percent. Why? A major scandal involving user data accompanied by…
InfluenceWatch Podcast Episode 15: #GunControl Now vs. #2A
In this episode: In the wake of the Parkland, Florida school massacre, anti-gun advocates have once again argued that this is the moment for stricter gun control measures. Who are they,…
InfluenceWatch Podcast Episode 14: Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions
In this episode: The movement for Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) against Israel is a mainstay on college campuses – for some due to the Jewish state’s policies and for…
InfluenceWatch Podcast Episode 13: Janus v. AFSCME (With Guest Mark Mix)
This is the InfluenceWatch Podcast, where we go beneath the surface to reveal the web of connected influence, money, and motivation driving the news, sourced primarily from our website InfluenceWatch.org,…
Who Stumped the Experts at the InfluenceWatch Podcast AMA Panel?
This is Capital Research Center’s AMA (Ask Me Anything) Panel at CPAC 2018, where you get to ask that burning question about the Left in politics… and try to stump…
InfluenceWatch Podcast Episode 11 – The Brocktopus
This is the InfluenceWatch Podcast, where we go beneath the surface to reveal the web of connected influence, money, and motivation driving the news, sourced primarily from our website InfluenceWatch.org,…