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SEC’s Non-Decision Decision on Corporate Political Activity a Policy and Political Mistake. John Coates, December 13, 2013, Opinion. "The SEC’s recent decision to take disclosure of political activities off the SEC’s agenda is a policy mistake, as it ignores the best research on the point, described below, and perpetuates a key loophole in the investor-relevant disclosure rules, allowing large companies to omit material information about the politically inflected risks they run with other people’s money. It is also a political mistake, as it repudiates the 600,000+ investors who have written to the SEC personally to ask it to adopt a rule requiring..." Link verified March 28, 2014