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Nearly two years after Wall Street crashed our economy, and after a year of work, the House …

In a landmark win for Main Street, the financial reform bill will result in substantial new protections for consumers from the tricks and traps in personal financing that indirectly and otherwise led to the financial …

Under current law, there is no single body designated to look at the “big picture,” and head off financial crises like the crash of 2008 and major non-bank players in the financial market operated in …

Credit-ratings agencies had been held up historically as neutral arbiters of risk. That turned out to be far from the truth, as evidenced by the numerous mortgage-backed securities and other risky securities that states and …

Selling over-the-counter derivatives is among the most lucrative businesses for the largest financial companies. U.S. commercial banks held derivatives with a notional value of $216.5 trillion at the end of the first quarter of this year, …

MEDIA ADVISORY
June 30, 2010
PLEASE CONTACT: Amy Logsdon, Iowa Citizen Action Network, 319-321-7056

Media Conference Call, Wednesday, June 30, 11:00 am CST
Iowa Residents and Activists Call on Senator Charles Grassley to Vote …