For Immediate Release
March 17, 2010

ABA’s Account: The subprime mortgage market collapse does “not warrant a fundamental overhaul of the basic regulatory structure. Banking regulators… have since responded in a coordinated and measured way to …

Washington, DC – Americans for Financial Reform, a coalition of over 200 groups, released the following statement today on Chairman Dodd’s financial reform legislation:
Heather Booth, Executive Director, Americans for Financial Reform: “We applaud Chairman Dodd …

Fight Club fans take note!  AFR Executive Director Heather Booth wrote up the rules of real financial reform for the Huffington Post.  Here are first few:
The first rule of real financial reform is that you …

The New York Times recently posted this editorial about the connection between Greece’s financial problems and Wall Street and the need for better regulation of derivatives trading.
As Greece has tottered on the brink of fiscal …

Make Markets Be Markets: A Groundbreaking Conference Hosted by the Roosevelt Institute
On March 3rd, the Roosevelt Institute gathered some of the nation’s leading financiers, economists, and former regulators to release a report outlining critical actions …

Want to know more about how we can fix our broken economy?  Hear what the experts have to say about this issue and help us get one step closer to finding a solution.
This Wednesday, March …