One of my favorite people in the whole world, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, dropped by the Netroots Nation conference yesterday in Detroit to talk about banking reform, the threat of oligarchy, the fight to establish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and those things that she feels that we, as Progressives, are ready to fight for. […]
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Elizabeth Warren outlines the fight ahead for Progressives at Netroots Nation 2014
Posted in Corporate Crime, Detroit, Politics Also tagged big banks, corporate personhood, corporations are not people, corruption, Elizabeth Warren, gay rights, infrastructure, lobbyists, marriage equality, minimum wage, net neutrality, Netroots Nation, populism, power grid, Presidential politics, Progressive platform, progressive politics, social security, student loan debt, tax loopholes, trade agreements, unfair policies, Wall Street reform 15 Comments
Financial reform bill emerges from committee, but is it any good?
I know that a number of consumer groups and unions are coming forward to support the financial reform bill that came out of conference committee on Friday. Among those singing the praises of the bill is Elizabeth Warren, the woman who heads the congressional panel overseeing the government’s bailout of American banks, whom I quote […]
Posted in Economics, Rants Also tagged auto dealers, banking reform, Bob Rubin, Commodities and Futures Modernization Act, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Dylan Ratigan, Elizabeth Warren, everage exemption, financial reform, Glass-Steagall Act, Hank Paulson, investment banks, Larry Summers, mark to myth, National Automobile Dealers Association, Obama, SEC, Wall Street, Wall Street bailouts, Wall Street bonuses 2 Comments
Sprouting Populist balls, and going after Wall Street
One good thing to come out of Republican Scott Brown’s election to the Senate a few days ago, is that it seems to have lit a fire under our President. In an abrupt about-face, Obama came out late last week, saying that our unrepentant financial industry had to be reigned in. Distancing himself from Treasury […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, Politics Also tagged bailout, Chris Dodd, COngressional oversight panel, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Elizabeth Warren, financial reform, Glass-Steagall Act, investment banks, Paul Volcker, populism, Robert Reich, TARP, Ted Kennedy, Timothy Geithner, Troubled Assets Relief Program, Wall Street 2 Comments