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It is Time for Wall Street to Pay its Fair Share
March 30, 2012 – 9:52 am | Comments Off

As most Americans struggle to pay their share, we can’t help but notice that Wall Street is not. Many of the economic problems we face today, from deficits to unemployment, were in large part created by …

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Reuters: Derivative Reforms Key for US Recovery – Gensler
February 1, 2010 – 12:14 pm

Reuters reports:
Reforming the $450 trillion derivatives market is key to removing the risks of financial markets, and greater central clearing of privately traded derivatives is a vital part of that, the head of the Commodities …

NPR: Making the Move to Community Banks
February 1, 2010 – 12:12 pm

NPR’s All Things Considered talked with a consumer in California who moved his money to a community bank, and discussed the Move Your Money campaign.  Listen here.

Lake Research Partners Respond to Luntz Memo
January 30, 2010 – 11:11 am

Lake Research Partners has put out this memo in response to Frank Luntz’s anti-reform memo, which AFR’s Heather Booth blogged about here.
This latest memo details how financial reform advocates should frame the conversation about financial …

Welcome to AFR’s Coalition
January 30, 2010 – 9:42 am

Thank you so much for joining Americans for Financial Reform.  As we work to clean up the mess that Wall Street made, we need your voice to help make sure that the job of rewriting …

Financial Advisor Magazine: What Transaction-Tax Foes Don’t Say
January 29, 2010 – 4:50 pm

This article posted on Financial Advisor Magazine’s website shows another side of the argument for a Financial Transaction Tax.  Here are a few of the notable statements from the article, including the leading paragraph:
Opponents of …

Professor Elizabeth Warren on the Daily Show: What part of ‘we bailed you out’ don’t you get?
January 29, 2010 – 10:25 am
Professor Elizabeth Warren on the Daily Show: What part of ‘we bailed you out’ don’t you get?

Professor Elizabeth Warren was back on the Daily Show on Tuesday night to speak to host Jon Stewart about the dire need for financial reform in order to preserve the middle class and America’s financial …