Here’s a way to raise hundreds of billions of dollars, get Wall Street to shoulder more of the responsibility for America’s economic recovery, and curb the kind of dangerous high-frequency trading that puts the financial …

Congress and the SEC need to stand firm in supporting the common-sense principle that all those providing financial advice to municipalities must put the best interests of taxpayers first.

Another battle is brewing over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. President Obama has renominated Richard Cordray as director, but 43 Senators have threatened to once again block his appointment unless the agency is dramatically weakened.
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84% say they support the consumer Bureau, and most are Republicans in a new poll commissioned by Small Business Majority and sponsored by the Center for Responsible Lending