Article Archive for February 2010
A group of concerned Southwestern Missouri residents were fed up with a lack of representation from their Congressman, Roy Blunt. They decided to try the bank trick that has been getting industry leaders into the …
“Don’t throw stones from a glass house – especially at an independent watchdog like Elizabeth Warren.”
That’s the latest from AFR’s Director, Heather Booth, who has a new post over at the New Deal 2.0 blog. …
The “Move Your Money” campaign got an extra boost this morning as it was mentioned on NPR’s Morning Edition.
Organizers of the campaign, which encourages consumers to move their money out of the big banks and …
The Pew Research Center recently found that a majority of Americans supports government regulation of financial companies. Read their fullresults here, and here are excepts from the findings:
While the public is wary of too much …
The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) partnered with the Center for Community Capital (CCC) at the University of North Carolina to produce their recent report titled The Foreclosure Generation: The Long-Term Impact of the …
Jonathan Mintz, the Commissioner for the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, recently put out a list of the top 10 financial products and practices that he thinks should be covered in 2010.
This list …