Chris Bowers, co-founder of OpenLeft. com recently wrote an editorial piece for The Huffington Post, which mentions Americans for Financial Reform. In it, he acknowledges that the Wall Street reform bill is not perfect, but “there is a [still] lot of good in this bill.”
July 1, 2010 Advocates Present Senator Brown with a BMW Senator Brown Should Vote for Wall Street Reform Without Delay Boston, MA— Advocates for financial reform presented Senator Scott Brown with a gift of his very own luxury BMW to urge the Senator to vote
Advocates will Send Message that Senator Brown Should Trade in his Truck for a Luxury Car and Drive in Style Like his Wall Street Donors Boston, MA— Advocates for financial reform are presenting Senator Brown with a gift on July 1: his very own luxury
An AFR event in Boston is referenced in this AP article. Excerpt: Advocates of the bill to rein in Wall Street were casting Brown’s dealmaking as a shift from underdog candidate in a pickup truck to something more amorphous. The Massachusetts branch of Americans for
As with the other provisions of the Wall Street reform bill, there were wins, losses, and some compromises in the process of ironing out the final details of investor protection reform. Here is how the final Wall Street reform bill addresses investor protection. What We
Washington, DC – Americans for Financial Reform hailed the House of Representatives for passing significant legislation to hold Wall Street accountable for the financial crisis and restore economic stability by reining in the excesses of the financial industry. Click here to tell your Senators to
For details on the outcomes of certain issue areas, follow the links at the bottom of this page. Nearly two years after Wall Street crashed our economy, and after a year of work, the House and Senate are finally ready to vote on a comprehensive
In a landmark win for Main Street, the financial reform bill will result in substantial new protections for consumers from the tricks and traps in personal financing that indirectly and otherwise led to the financial crisis. The resulting Bureau has the independence and authority it
Under current law, there is no single body designated to look at the “big picture,” and head off financial crises like the crash of 2008 and major non-bank players in the financial market operated in the shadows without any government oversight. Here’s how the Wall
Credit-ratings agencies had been held up historically as neutral arbiters of risk. That turned out to be far from the truth, as evidenced by the numerous mortgage-backed securities and other risky securities that states and municipalities in particular bought because they had been slapped with