Our favorite candidate to lead the CFPA, Elizabeth Warren, is the subject of a new rap video supporting her nomination. The video comes courtesy of our friends at the Main Street Brigade. Want to show your support for Elizabeth Warren? Take a look at this
Click here for a pdf version of this letter. August 9, 2010 Dear Mr. President: The undersigned civil and human rights organizations urge you to nominate Elizabeth Warren to serve as the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Professor Warren will serve
Senator Cantwell and Senator Murray support Elizabeth Warren to lead the CFPB, according to this article by the Seattle Pi website. Saying its director should be “independent” and an “outsider,” Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., are backing Harvard Law bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren
Dave Kane recently wrote this article about the need for further derivative reform. He talks about the problem of commodity specs and how the financial reform bill has paved the way for even better regulations to gain control of commodity markets. Click here to read
The following article was published in Dos Mundos, a Kansas City news service, and covered CCO’s celebrating following the financial reform bill signing. Click here to read the full article in English and Spanish, and see photos from the event on page 3A. The grassroots
Click the links below to check out the news coverage about the letter 141 U.S. professors sent to President Obama urging him to appoint Elizabeth Warren as head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Financial Fraud Law presented a brief overview of the
141 U.S. PROFESSORS URGE PRESIDENT OBAMA TO APPOINT ELIZABETH WARREN DIRECTOR OF THE NEW BUREAU OF CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 3, 2010 – A total of 141 of America’s leading law and other professors are submitting a joint letter to President Barack
The Las Vegas Sun spoke highly of Elizabeth Warren in a recent editorial. Click here to read the full article. It is no wonder that Warren has been tough on banks while on the oversight panel. This is the kind of vigor on behalf of
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