BONNE NOUVELLE TOUT LE MONDE, LES MICROPLASTIQUES SONT PARTOUT DANS L'ATMOSPHERE ET RECHAUFFENT LE CLIMAT.
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Elon Musk is preparing to take SpaceX public through a Wall Street deal engineered to lock in his power, weaken basic shareholder rights, and let early insiders cash out while regular investors, including workers saving for retirement, could be left holding the bag. SpaceX may end up having a dual-class share structure that would give Musk and other insiders super-voting power while ordinary shareholders get far less say. That means the people whose retirement funds may end up buying SpaceX shares could be locked out of meaningful decisions over executive pay, board accountability, and if Musk can be removed from leadership. It gets worse. SpaceX is also positioned to take advantage of Texas corporate law changes and Trump administration SEC policies that make it harder for shareholders to uncover wrongdoing, bring lawsuits, or challenge insider self-dealing. The company could become the first to go public with a forced arbitration provision that strips shareholders of their day in court when corporate fraud or misconduct occurs. This is exactly why AFR’s work matters. We dig into the fine print Wall Street hopes the public never reads. We expose how corporate governance rules, SEC policy, index standards, and state law changes can be stitched together into one rigged system where billionaires get liquidity, insiders keep control, and workers absorb the downside.
SpaceX’s own reported valuation claims are staggering. A $1.75 trillion valuation is untethered from reality, especially for a company trying to enter public markets while insulating its most powerful insider from accountability. A public offering at that scale would be a jackpot for early investors and insiders, but the risk would land on ordinary people whose retirement accounts are pushed into the stock after the hype machine has already done its work. And now index providers are changing the rules in ways that could fast-track SpaceX into major funds before the market has had a real chance to price the company. That means teachers, firefighters, nurses, public servants, and millions of workers with 401(k)s and pensions could be forced into a Musk-controlled company arguably valued at wildly inflated levels with fewer protections than investors should ever accept. Musk’s record makes this even more dangerous. He has repeatedly put his own interests first, from self-dealing transactions to broken promises to moving resources between his companies. A public SpaceX structured around Musk’s unchecked control would not be innovative. It would be an oligarchy with a ticker symbol. We need the resources to keep sounding the alarm before this deal becomes the new model for corporate power. If SpaceX can tap public markets while stripping away accountability, other billionaire-led companies will follow the same playbook, and retirement savers will be pushed deeper into companies where they carry the risk but have almost no voice. Together, we can fight for public markets that serve workers, investors, and communities, not Elon Musk’s unchecked power. -Natalia. Natalia Renta (she/her)
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Friend, Republicans are trying to pass a bill called the Price Stability Act, but the name is a scam. It does nothing to lower grocery bills. It does nothing to bring down rent. It does nothing to stop Trump’s tariffs from raising costs on families and small businesses. It does nothing to confront corporate price gouging, Wall Street speculation, or the real affordability crisis crushing people across the country. This bill is straight out of Project 2025. The so-called Price Stability Act would strip the Federal Reserve of its responsibility to consider workers or pursue maximum employment and force it to focus only on price stability. In plain language, that means the Fed could make decisions about interest rates without even having to consider whether those decisions push people out of work, slow wage growth, or weaken the labor market. That would be a green light for policymakers to treat unemployment as acceptable collateral damage. Interest rate hikes can make mortgages, credit cards, car loans, student loans, and small-business loans more expensive. They can also slow hiring and trigger layoffs. That is exactly why the Fed’s mandate is supposed to include both stable prices and maximum employment. This is a civil rights issue. Civil rights and racial justice activists — including Coretta Scott King — led the fight to include workers in the Fed mandate. Full employment has long been central to the fight for racial and economic justice because unemployment and weak labor markets hit Black, Brown, low-income earning, and marginalized communities first and hardest. Congress should be focused on lowering costs, protecting consumers, and strengthening the economy for working families. Instead, Republicans are pushing a bill that tells the Fed to ignore workers. Tell Congress to oppose the Price Stability Act and reject this anti-worker attack on the Federal Reserve’s maximum employment mandate.
The Fed’s maximum employment mandate exists for a reason. It requires policymakers to look at the whole economy, not just inflation in isolation. It forces the central bank to consider whether working people can find jobs, whether wages are growing, whether communities are being left behind, and whether economic policy is pushing the country toward unnecessary layoffs. When policymakers decide that joblessness is an acceptable tool for managing the economy, the burden falls on the workers with the least power and the communities already facing the deepest barriers. The so-called Price Stability Act will not make corporations stop overcharging families. It will not lower housing costs. It will not rein in Wall Street. That's why it's a goal of Project 2025. It will not make child care, health care, or groceries more affordable. It simply narrows the Fed’s mission so that workers become invisible in the very decisions that shape whether they can keep their jobs and build a stable life. Congress cannot rewrite the Fed’s mandate to satisfy Wall Street’s obsession with a one-sided, anti-worker version of “price stability.” Lawmakers need to hear that people want an economy built around jobs, wages, affordability, and shared prosperity, not a system where unemployment is ignored until families are already in crisis. Let’s defend workers and demand an economy that puts people before Wall Street. -Oscar. Oscar Valdés Viera (he/him)
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