Tell Congress to Hold Banks Accountable Join Americans for Financial Reform and our allies around the country in our first National Senate Call-in Week, March 1 – 4, 2010. AFR is joined in this effort by our large coalition of organizations, small businesses, and individuals. As financial reform legislation moves through the Senate, we are
In addition to writing to your elected officials, you can make a difference in the fight for financial reform by submitting a letter to the editor of your local paper. Click here to easily connect with local newspapers, and then submit your own version of the letter below. The Honest Truth I, as I’m sure
February 9, 2010 Dear Senator Harkin and Representative DeFazio: We, the undersigned organizations, are writing in support of your bills, “The Wall Street Fair Share Act”(S. 2927) and “Let Wall Street Pay for the Restoration of Main Street Act of 2009” (H.R. 4191). Your bills would rein in reckless financial markets gambling, and help prevent
Professor Elizabeth Warren submitted this Opinion piece to the Wall Street Journal yesterday. As the Chair of the TARP Congressional Oversight Panel, Professor Warren has been vocal about the need for increased consumer protections and has been a staunch supporter of the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency. In this piece, she talks about
The Main Street Brigade is a rapid response team, nationwide, that can be activated to protect our communities against just this kind of devastation. Right now, we are ALL vulnerable to the big banks, CEOs and Wall Street institutions whose irresponsibility and risky behavior caused this economic crisis. Our vulnerability is being increased by the
To get our economy back on track, we must regulate the financial instruments known as “derivatives.” Derivatives are traded on Wall Street in secretive “shadow markets.” These markets need to be brought into the light to secure financial safety for regular investors – folks depending upon their 401ks and college savings. (For a basic definition