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Press Release: Over 170 Organizations Join Broad Coalition Supporting New Senate Bill to Cap Interest Rates for Loans
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 11, 2026 CONTACTS: Jarice Thompson, jarice@ourfinancialsecurity.org; Nicholas Rubando, nrubando@consumerfed.org Over 170 Organizations Join Broad Coalition Supporting New Senate Bill to Cap Interest Rates for Loans WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the prospect of an interest rate cap has…
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AFR Joins Sen. Warren, Rep. Pressley and Other Advocates on the One Year Anniversary of Trump’s Attacks on the CFPB
On February 9, 2026, Americans for Financial Reform joined Sen.Warren, Rep.Pressley, the CFPB Union, and other financial justice advocates to speak out against the unlawful takedown of this popular and much needed Federal agency.
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FIRE SALES TO WALL STREET: A Review of Government-Sponsored Residential Note Sales
Growing Wall Street control of single family homes is a contributor to our housing crisis, with mega single-family investors (those who own more than 1,000 homes nationwide) controlling an estimated 446,000 homes as of January 2025. Nationally, the presence of corporate landlords in a community has been associated with raised rents, junk fees, reduced maintenance,
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AFR in the News
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Daily Kos: A primer on the upcoming financial crisis
I just found this interview from December of Damon Silvers by Americans for Financial Reform. It is prescient, and long, but too packed to do justice to it in a post here. The dominoes are set, Trump is at the helm, what could go wrong?
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Punchbowl News: Vault: Progressive groups urge Congress to act on 10% rate cap
The letter, led by Protect Borrowers and the Consumer Federation of America, was also signed by the American Economic Liberties Project, Americans for Financial Reform, Faith in Action Network, NAACP and Young Invincibles.
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Oligarchs Take Over Corporations
Elon Musk and other billionaire oligarchs have triggered a race to the bottom in state corporate law, with Delaware, Texas, and Nevada changing their laws to strengthen the power of corporate insiders while decreasing the power of regular shareholders to provide input and hold management accountable for corporate misconduct.
