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admin wrote a new blog post: Madeleine Albright on the Roma 1 year, 2 months ago

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admin wrote a new blog post: Test 1 year, 2 months ago

What’s your opinion?

admin wrote a new blog post: Why Geithner refuses to endorse Warren 1 year, 9 months ago

John Talbott writing in Huffington Post points out that Tim Geithner “sees the appointment of Elizabeth Warren as a threat to the very scheme he has utilized to date to hide bank losses, thus keeping the banks solvent and out of bankruptcy court and their [...]

admin wrote a new blog post: Victory! 1 year, 10 months ago

Nearly two years after major banks brought the global financial system to the brink of collapse and triggered a steep economic decline, Congress passed its Wall Street reform package today, 60-39. The president will sign it into law next week.

Heather Booth, Director, [...]

admin wrote a new blog post: AFR on landmark legislation 1 year, 12 months ago

Washington, DC – Americans for Financial Reform released the following statement following the vote this evening in the Senate on Financial Reform:

Heather Booth, Director, Americans for Financial Reform: “We are pleased the Senate has passed this momentous bill that will rein in big banks’ reckless behavior and bring transparency to our financial system and [...]

admin wrote a new blog post: Senate passes financial reform 1 year, 12 months ago

The Senate approved far-reaching new financial rules today aimed at preventing the risky behavior and regulatory failures that brought the economy to the brink of collapse two years ago and cost millions of Americans their jobs and savings.

The vote was 59 to 39, with four [...]

admin wrote a new blog post: The Main Street Moms letter 2 years ago

UPDATE: Many thanks to the mothers who have supported financial reform and the establishment of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. With the Senate passage of the bill, we are over the top of the mountain. Your help in pushing the bill along is appreciated.

“Mother is the bank where we deposit all our hurts [...]

admin wrote a new blog post: Banking on hypocrisy – Elizabeth Warren 2 years, 1 month ago

Banks or families?

While American families have made clear that they overwhelmingly support the reforms that a new consumer financial protection agency will produce — like clear, understandable terms and conditions for consumer credit products and accountability for the big banks — the lobbyists have made equally clear their plan to kill the agency.

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admin wrote a new blog post: Financial Reform Bill Clears Senate Banking Committee 2 years, 1 month ago

The Senate Banking Committee voted on Monday to send to the full Senate a Democratic bill to overhaul the nation’s financial system, deferring, for now, an anticipated partisan fight over the legislation.

Although the vote was along party lines, with all 13 Democrats voting yes and all 10 Republicans voting no, senators said the decision [...]

admin wrote a new blog post: President Obama on Financial Reform 2 years, 2 months ago

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

________________________________________________________________________

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 15, 2010

Statement from the President on Financial Reform

It has now been well over a year since the near collapse of the
financial sector, and yet today the same failed system that brought on
this crisis remains in place. The financial crisis [...]

admin wrote a new blog post: New facebook page for AFR 2 years, 2 months ago

Americans for Financial Reform has launched a project to reach people on social networks and get them involved in the fight for financial reform. “What the B@nk?!” is now live on Facebook, Twitter, and AFR’s website:

http://www.facebook.com/WhatTheBank

admin wrote a new blog post: CFPA in the News 2 years, 2 months ago

Synopsis of recent news on the CFPA:

Washington Post, March 2, 2010
Dodd wants Democratic support for consumer-protection regulator at Fed

The chairman of the Senate banking committee is seeking Democratic support for a Republican proposal to house a new consumer-protection regulator inside the Federal Reserve, a compromise that could clear the way for bipartisan legislation on financial [...]

admin wrote a new blog post: Getting the word out 2 years, 2 months ago

Press on Main Street Brigade and the Presidential Reunion video:

A round up of the first press in on the Presidential Reunion video:

Washington Post: SNL stars unite behind Consumer Financial Protection Agency

Wall Street Journal: Funny Business: Comedians Push for Consumer Agency

ABC.com: Consumer Financial Protection Agency Endorsed by SNL [...]

admin wrote a new blog post: Read the Bill 2 years, 2 months ago

To read the full financial reform bill, click here.

admin wrote a new blog post: What You Can Do 2 years, 3 months ago

Once you have made your support of the CFPA known to the Senate Banking Committee, keep the momentum going! Other things you can do:

CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE: Click here to send an email to your local representative telling them that you support the formation [...]

admin wrote a new blog post: CFPA Straight Talk 2 years, 3 months ago

Professor Elizabeth Warren is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School — where she teaches contract law, bankruptcy, and commercial law — and has devoted much of the past three decades to studying the economics of middle class families. In the wake [...]

admin wrote a new blog post: The CFPA: Myths and Facts 2 years, 3 months ago

The greedy and reckless behavior of big banks on Wall Street, credit card companies, mortgage lenders and irresponsible consumers just caused a financial crisis that cost Americans millions of lost jobs, and billions in tax-payer funded bailouts and lost retirement savings.

Today, [...]

admin wrote a new blog post: Warren on Jon Stewart 2 years, 3 months ago

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
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admin wrote a new blog post: The Credit Cruncher 2 years, 3 months ago

admin wrote a new blog post: What is the CFPA? 2 years, 3 months ago

CFPA stands for Consumer Financial Protection Agency. And here’s why we need it.

Today, the credit and lending industry standards are set by organizations that govern the business of banking.

These organizations are concerned with the banking institutions themselves, safe and sound business practices. Safe and sound [...]

admin wrote a new blog post: Tell Them to Watch Your Back 2 years, 3 months ago

Make your voice heard in Washington:

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