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Lake Research Partners Respond to Luntz Memo
January 30, 2010 – 11:11 am

Lake Research Partners has put out this memo in response to Frank Luntz’s anti-reform memo, which AFR’s Heather Booth blogged about here.
This latest memo details how financial reform advocates should frame the conversation about financial …

Welcome to AFR’s Coalition
January 30, 2010 – 9:42 am

Thank you so much for joining Americans for Financial Reform.  As we work to clean up the mess that Wall Street made, we need your voice to help make sure that the job of rewriting …

Financial Advisor Magazine: What Transaction-Tax Foes Don’t Say
January 29, 2010 – 4:50 pm

This article posted on Financial Advisor Magazine’s website shows another side of the argument for a Financial Transaction Tax.  Here are a few of the notable statements from the article, including the leading paragraph:
Opponents of …

Professor Elizabeth Warren on the Daily Show: What part of ‘we bailed you out’ don’t you get?
January 29, 2010 – 10:25 am
Professor Elizabeth Warren on the Daily Show: What part of ‘we bailed you out’ don’t you get?

Professor Elizabeth Warren was back on the Daily Show on Tuesday night to speak to host Jon Stewart about the dire need for financial reform in order to preserve the middle class and America’s financial …

CNN Opinion: Tax Wall Street to Create Jobs on Main Street
January 28, 2010 – 3:42 pm

Leo Hindery, Jr. is chair of the US Economy/Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation. He is the former chief executive of AT&T Broadband and other major media and telecom companies, and published this …

Organizational Letter in Support of Financial Speculation Taxes
January 28, 2010 – 3:22 pm

Americans for Financial Reform, CMOC and other groups will send the following letter to Senator Harkin and Representative DeFazio.  If you represent an organization, click here to join us and sign the letter.
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Dear Senator Harkin …