Jim Hightower: Bank fees are more outrageous than ever before Excerpt: How’s this for gratitude? Wall Street bankers, whom we’ve propped up with a $12 trillion bailout, are quietly slipping offensive little notes into your and my monthly credit card bills and bank statements. The
Posted by Phyllis Salowe-Kaye/ Star-Ledger Guest Columnist August 06, 2009 5:16AM Categories: Economy ANDREW MILLS/THE STAR-LEDGER Elizabeth Warren is the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel created to oversee the U.S. banking bailout, formally known as the TARP -Troubled Assets Relief Program. Most reasonable people
By Bill Ragen, SEIU An incentive system similar to one at the top is at work at the street level of the biggest banks. In the tens of thousands of bank branches and call centers of our biggest banks, employees-including bank tellers earning an average
Angela Canterbury Public Citizen We would have had more warning of the collapse of Wall Street and the subsequent economy crisis if there had been more protections and avenues for disclosure for employees willing to raise concerns. Whistleblowers are critical to combating fraud, gross mismanagement,
By Maya Jackson Randall and Jessica Holzer Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–Only 9% of eligible borrowers have received trial modifications under the Obama administration’s ambitious effort to help struggling homeowners, according to data released by the U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday. Participating mortgage
Banks Fall Short on Mortgage Help Govt. Report Shows 15 Percent of Eligible Borrowers Offered Help; Bank of America, Wells Fargo Lag Behind Other Big Banks By MATTHEW JAFFE and ALICE GOMSTYNAugust 4, 2009 Fewer than one in five homeowners eligible for the Obama administration’s
Posted on Sat, Aug. 01, 2009 By BRIAN BURNES The Kansas City Star The American Dream shouldn’t become a nightmare. So said Stevie Wakes, pastor of Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Kansas City, Kan. He was among several speakers at a Saturday meeting organized by
The Philadelphia Inquirer ran this excellent opinion piece on August 3. Here’s an excerpt: Credit card and mortgage consumers need help to level the playing field. By Adam Benforado The $3-trillion-a-year consumer financial-services industry wants you to play a game with them, one on one.
Americans for Financial Reform (“AFR”) is a coalition of nearly 200 national, state and local consumer, employee, investor, community and civil rights organizations who seek meaningful reform of our banking and financial system. A list of the AFR coalition members is attached. AFR writes to
NTIC Community Meetings with the Federal Reserve July 16 – August 22 July 14- Click Here to view the day’s Events in Support of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency June 24- 5:30 PM, Taxpayer-Shareholder Protest Meeting at Bank of America HQ, San Francisco. We’ll rally at