Mark Maynard | Dodd-Frank

The hijacking of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

By Mark | November 27, 2017

There’s so much I want to talk about right now… the failed attempt on the part of Project Veritas to trick the Washington Post into running a fake story about Roy Moore’s fondness for child rape; the fact that our President couldn’t help but make a racist joke today while honoring Navajo ‘code talkers’ for […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged administrative state, Barbara Lee, big banks, CFPB, Citibank, code talkers, consumer protection, David Sirota, deregulation, Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, finance, financial crisis, financial reform, health care, higher education, Ian Millhiser, Laurence Tribe, Leandra English, Mick Mulvaney, Navajo, net neutrality, racism, regulation, Richard Cordray, Santander, tax reform, Timothy Kelly, Wall Street deregulation, Washington Post | 6 Comments

Pete Larson on the financialization of agricultural commodities

By Mark | September 26, 2012

One of our regular contributors, my old friend Pete Larson, who many of you had the pleasure of seeing perform at this site’s 10th anniversary party a few weeks ago, is going to be speaking in Ann Arbor on Thursday about the financialization of agricultural commodities. I took the occasion to ask him a few […]

Posted in Agriculture, Economics | Also tagged agricultural commodities, Agriculture, big ag, College Truth Tour, commoditization, Cuba, deregulation, derivatives, economic crash, financial industry, financial reform, food crisis, food prices, healthy food access, hedge funds, Herman Cain, Howard Stein, human rights, Joe Stiglitz, New World Ecology and Agriculture Group, NWEAG, Pete Larson, pork, Richard Levins, Science For the People, scientists, speculation, stock market, supply and demand, sustainable agriculture, University of Michigan, Wall Street | 14 Comments

Republicans use most recent JPMorgan scandal to demonstrate folly of regulation, instead of criminal corporate behavior

By Mark | May 23, 2012

There’s a great piece in the Washington Post today about Republicans in the Senate, and how they seem determined to focus their wrath not on the individuals at JPMorgan who were recently caught engaging in risky, irresponsible stock trades, but on those federal regulators who didn’t somehow foresee these actions and stop them from happening. […]

Posted in Politics | Also tagged campaign finance reform, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Dana Milbank, deregulation, Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Gary Gensler, get the money out of Washington, hypocrisy watch, irony, Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase, lobbying, pathetic Republicans, regulation, Republican lies, Republicanan outrage, Richard Shelby, Senate Banking Committee, too big to fail, Wall Street bailouts | 4 Comments

Republicans gut Dodd Frank Act, killing efforts to protect American citizens from financial industry abuse

By Mark | November 12, 2011

On July 21, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law. The legislation, written by Congressman Barney Frank, and Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee Chris Dodd, promised to be the most comprehensive financial reform to be undertaken since the Great Depression. As with the Glass-Steagall Act, […]

Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged banking reform, banks, Barney Frank, Carl Levin, Chris Dodd, Christopher Dodd, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, deregulation, Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Elizabeth Warren, financial reform, Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, Glass-Steagall Act, Graham-Leach-Bliley Act, Great Depression, H.R.4173, John Oliver, lobbying, lobbyists, Neal Wolin, Newt Gingrich, Richard Cordray, Schoolhouse Rock, things fucked raw, Treasury Department, Wall Street deregulation | 10 Comments

Elizabeth Warren… the woman who knew too much

By Mark | October 11, 2011

Vanity Fair has a great feature on the troubled history of the Customer Financial Protection Bureau, and the forces on Wall Street, in Congress, and inside the White House that ultimately alligned against Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law professor who had created the ambitious new agency charged with protecting the American people from the predatory […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Ann Coulter, Barney Frank, campaign finance reform, Center for Responsive Politics, Christopher Dodd, Chuck Schumer, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Consumer Product Safety Commission, David Axelrod, demonic activity, Elizabeth Warren, get the money out of Washington, Harry Reid, Jonathan Alter, JPMorgan Chase, Kirsten Gillibrand, Molly Erdman, possession, Richard Shelby, Scott Brown, Sean Duffy, Senate Banking Committee, Spencer Bachus, Timothy Geithner, Valerie Jarrett, Wall Street, William Daley | 8 Comments

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The hijacking of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Pete Larson on the financialization of agricultural commodities

Republicans use most recent JPMorgan scandal to demonstrate folly of regulation, instead of criminal corporate behavior

Republicans gut Dodd Frank Act, killing efforts to protect American citizens from financial industry abuse

Elizabeth Warren… the woman who knew too much

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