Ed Mierzwinski wrote this great summary of the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009 (HR 4173) on the Huffington Post.  Here’s an excerpt, mentioning AFR:
Call Congress at 202-225-3121 and ask your Representative …

The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote this week on H.R. 4173, the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009.  Read our letter of support for this bill here.
The banks and others …

They bring signs, banners, leaflets, and stories of foreclosures and unemployment.  Individually, they’re mothers, fathers, retirees, hard workers who are in between jobs.  Together, they’re a force to be reckoned with, as local AIG and …

Host Tom Dziubek spoke with Heather Booth, Executive Director of Americans for Financial Reform.  Americans for Financial Reform is a coalition of over two hundred national, state and local consumer, labor, retiree, investor, community and …

The Center for Responsible Lending warned consumers this Black Friday to watch out for overdraft loans.  Every day, consumers lose $65 in overdraft fees to banks.  As CRL explains:
At $24 billion per year in fees, …

Siegel+Gale put together this PDF which boils down a sample credit card’s terms to one page.
While the language is simpler than your average 30-page contract, it’s still not ideal; note that the late fee is …