For Immediate Release June 17, 2010 **CLICK HERE FOR AUDIO OF THE CALL** Washington, DC – Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Carl Levin (D-MI) joined with experts from Americans for Financial Reform to call for banks to get back to the basic commercial banking business
Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Carl Levin (D-MI) join with experts from Americans for Financial Reform to call for banks to get back to the basic commercial banking business of making loans to consumers and businesses instead of the ‘proprietary trading’ they do on their
Americans for Financial Reform and Chris Bowers of Open Left and Joan McCarter of Daily Kos host Blog conference call Friday, June 18, 2010 at 12 noon EDT (Call in: (951) 262-4343, Access code: 778106) Experts and Activists Answer Questions on Final Fights in Last Week of
Today, Heather Booth, Director of Americans for Financial Reform, stated, “Section 716 of the Senate derivatives title remains one of the most critical, structural reforms left standing in the Wall Street Reform bill. Wall Street lobbyists have thrown everything they have at it because they
**PRESS CONFERENCE CALL, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 4:30 PM ET** To download press conference go to this link Washington, DC – On Thursday, June 17, at 4:30 PM, Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) will join with experts to call for banks to get back to the basic commercial banking
Two Years After The Meltdown: The Time is Now for Wall Street Reform Washington, DC – As the House and Senate begin their conference to iron out differences in their Wall Street reform bills, it didn’t take long for opponents of reform to unveil their
As Conference Begins, Advocates Remind Elected Officials They Will Be Held Accountable for Wall Street Reform Vote In Arkansas on June 15th, Americans for Financial Reform members canvass Pine Bluff at 4 pm. They will be encouraging people to contact Senator Blanche Lincoln and tell her to
Tele-press conference Monday, June 7, 2010 at 9 a.m. EDT Nobel Prize winner warns against putting the government at risk for Big Banks’ deceptive practices Elimination of the language in the Senate financial reform bill that would require big banks to separate their derivatives desks
Experts and Leaders Will Lay Out What to Expect in the Conference and How to Keep the Final Bill Strong Listen to a recording of the conference here. Washington, D.C. – Friday, June 4 at 11 A.M. ET, a panel of financial experts and civil rights
On the day the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission held hearings on the role credit rating agencies play in the economic meltdown, Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.), Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray and James Lardner, senior policy analyst at Demos, called for ensuring