The Financial Reform and Consumer Protection bill has been signed into law, but that doesn’t mean that the big banks are slowing down their fight to prevent reforms. Check out the latest lobbying numbers and stats, as reported in the news: “The finance, insurance and real estate sector spent $125.5 million in lobbying for the
NewsOK recently published an article about Elizabeth Warren, an Oklahoman making a stir from Washington DC to Wall Street. Click here to read the full article. Her goal, she said, is what it has been throughout the 20 years that she’s been researching financial data, particularly as they relate to American consumers, whom she believes
A recent article in Newsweek advised the President to pick Elizabeth Warren to head the CFPB. Click here to read the full article. Warren’s fierce independence is exactly what makes the control freaks in the White House uncomfortable. Their doubts about her can be traced to the same economic boys’ club that sniped at FDIC
July 29, 2010 Dear President Obama: On behalf of the Main Street Alliance, a national network of small business coalitions, we write to extend our support for the candidacy of Dr. Elizabeth Warren to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created by the recently enacted financial reform legislation. As small business owners, we have a
Jeff Sovern, a professor at St. John’s University School of Law and co-coordinator of the Consumer Law and Policy Blog, argues in favor of Elizabeth Warren to lead the CFPB. Click here to read his full article in The Hill. But the president should not nominate someone who reflexively opposes banks without considering whether particular
The SEIU has asked President Obama to nominate Elizabeth Warren to run the CFPB. Click here to read their full letter. They say: Warren has spent her entire career fighting for the interests of working families and supporting policies to help rebuild our middle class. In fact, Warren even came up with the concept of