Police Wall Street
What exactly is going on with the economy? Stocks are up and big bonuses are back, but while they’re throwing parties on Wall Street, there’s pain on Main Street. One out of every six workers …
On Tuesday November 17, Damon Silvers of the AFL-CIO will debate Ed Yingling of the American Bankers Association about how best to reform America’s financial system. The event will be hosted by the Aspen Institute:
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DATE: November 10, 2009
Heather Booth, Director, Americans for Financial Reform: “Americans for Financial Reform (AFR), and our over 200 coalition partners, thank Senator Cantwell for introducing legislation today to close the derivatives loophole.
Senator …
Consumer Federation of America and Americans for Financial Reform Decry
House Financial Services Committee Vote to Weaken Post-Enron Fraud Protections
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 2009 –Today, Americans for Financial Reform and Consumer Federation of …
The New York Times ran this prescient editorial in yesterday’s paper. Here’s an excerpt:
Another day, another test of Congress’s will to reform the financial system.
The Investor Protection Act of 2009, which faces final votes on …
On November 3, 2009, this letter was sent from public pension funds to House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank in support of the Waters-Peters Amendment to the Investor Protection Act of 2009.
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