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Five Minutes With: Elizabeth Warren
(www.campusprogress.org)
Elizabeth Warren is a professor at Harvard Law School. In an era in which consumer protections have fallen by the wayside, Warren has been arguing for the interests of consumers, advocating for the... More
Submitted 17 days ago by AlisonHamm | 0 Comments |
Fighting on Frontlines of the Foreclosure Crisis: Citizens Take on the Monster Banks | Economy | AlterNet
(www.alternet.org)
East Boston is one of those urban neighborhoods that is easy to pass through and hard to get to. It's separated from downtown Boston by a river, bisected by two tunnels and a freeway, and hemmed in by... More
Submitted about 1 month ago by AlisonHamm | 0 Comments |
Elizabeth Warren on the Great Economic Battlefield: Protecting the Middle Class from Financial Predators | Economy | AlterNet
(www.alternet.org)
For years, federal banking regulators at the Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) and the Federal Reserve helped the nation's largest banks wage war on... More
Submitted about 1 month ago by AlisonHamm | 0 Comments |
Another Look at Obama’s Proposed Bank Tax
(washingtonindependent.com)
The tax on the nation’s bailed-out banks, proposed by President Obama last week, has won the support of congressional liberals, and even some conservative commentators have jumped on board. But... More
Submitted about 1 month ago by AlisonHamm | 0 Comments |
Why Can't We Get Anyone to Ask a Wall St. CEO the Hard Questions? | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNet
(www.alternet.org)
Articles and blogs are flooding the Web, summarizing and dissecting the opening Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's chat with the four CEOs presiding over the strongest (read: luckiest recipients of... More
Submitted 2 months ago by AlisonHamm | 0 Comments |
Bye-Bye Bernanke: Let's Get Bush's Banker Out of the Federal Reserve | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNet
(www.alternet.org)
Much of the mainstream press has played the rising opposition to Senate confirmation of Ben Bernanke as a case of misplaced populist rage. The fact that the opposition within the Senate began with... More
Submitted 2 months ago by AlisonHamm | 0 Comments |
Weekly Audit: Crashing the Corporate Christmas Party
(www.themediaconsortium.org)
While Wall Street will ring in the new year with huge bonuses and taxpayer-fueled profits, there is little holiday cheer for the workers whose tax dollars funded the bank bailouts. Although bank stock... More
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Obama Plans to “Shame” Banks, But Offers No Help for People Drowning In Their Mortgages
(www.racewire.org)
Unsatisfied with all the foot dragging this country’s major mortgage lenders have been doing with its beleaguered home loan modification program, the Obama administration last week announced that it... More
Submitted 3 months ago by lizchapman | 0 Comments |
Public Citizen rallies against the banksters (laudyms.wordpress.com)
Public Citizen president Robert Weissman fired up a rally at the Washington, D.C., offices of Goldman Sachs – you know, the taxpayer-bailed-out financial services behemoth that, according to its own... More
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Treasury To Punish Lenders Not Helping Mortgage Clients
(airamerica.com)
The Obama administration will crack down on mortgage companies that are failing to do enough to help borrowers at risk of foreclosure, as part of a broad effort to boost participation in its mortgage... More
Submitted 3 months ago by lizchapman | 0 Comments |
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