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Press Release: Over 170 Organizations Join Broad Coalition Supporting New Senate Bill to Cap Interest Rates for Loans
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 11, 2026 CONTACTS: Jarice Thompson, jarice@ourfinancialsecurity.org; Nicholas Rubando, nrubando@consumerfed.org Over 170 Organizations Join Broad Coalition Supporting New Senate Bill to Cap Interest Rates for Loans WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the prospect of an interest rate cap has…
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AFR Joins Sen. Warren, Rep. Pressley and Other Advocates on the One Year Anniversary of Trump’s Attacks on the CFPB
On February 9, 2026, Americans for Financial Reform joined Sen.Warren, Rep.Pressley, the CFPB Union, and other financial justice advocates to speak out against the unlawful takedown of this popular and much needed Federal agency.
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FIRE SALES TO WALL STREET: A Review of Government-Sponsored Residential Note Sales
Growing Wall Street control of single family homes is a contributor to our housing crisis, with mega single-family investors (those who own more than 1,000 homes nationwide) controlling an estimated 446,000 homes as of January 2025. Nationally, the presence of corporate landlords in a community has been associated with raised rents, junk fees, reduced maintenance,
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AFR in the News
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Daily Kos: A primer on the upcoming financial crisis
I just found this interview from December of Damon Silvers by Americans for Financial Reform. It is prescient, and long, but too packed to do justice to it in a post here. The dominoes are set, Trump is at the helm, what could go wrong?
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Jacobin: Trump’s SEC May Tee Up a Repeat of the 2008 Financial Crisis
“People should be very alarmed that we are trying to deregulate something that is a known problem in our financial system,” said Caroline Nagy, a housing expert with the consumer-protection-focused Americans for Financial Reform. “It seems like they’re making changes that will exacerbate wealth inequality and make it easier for Wall Street lenders to make…
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VitalLaw: CREDIT, DEBIT AND GIFT CARDS—Senate Democrats’ bill would allow states to cap consumer interest rates
Tom Feltner, associated director of consumer policy at Americans for Financial Reform, said states’ role in consumer financial protection “has only become more vital since the administration has attempted to shutter the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, halt its efforts to bring down costs, and roll back its work to enforce critical financial protections.”
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Oligarchs Take Over Corporations
Elon Musk and other billionaire oligarchs have triggered a race to the bottom in state corporate law, with Delaware, Texas, and Nevada changing their laws to strengthen the power of corporate insiders while decreasing the power of regular shareholders to provide input and hold management accountable for corporate misconduct.
