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Voters Want The Banks Reined In
House members should beware when bank lobbyists come calling: Ceding to their wishes might get you campaign cash but it will likely cost you the next election. That's the message of a new poll released today by Celinda Lake and done for Americans for Financial Reform....
Progressive Breakfast - 10/14/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Finance Bill Hit From All Sides As Full Senate Poised To Weigh In Time previews what's next: "Over the next two weeks they will finish merging the two measures...
Stopping Banks From Fleecing, Looting, Scamming, Conning and Generally Ripping Us Off
In the last several years we have all been fleeced, looted, robbed, swindled, thieved, tricked, cheated, scammed, exploited, ponzied, stung, conned, extorted, ripped off and bankrupted by the banks and other big financial companies. Finally the Congress is working on...
Baucus Bill Passes. Process Moves Forward. Public Option Push Critical.
Sen. Olympia Snowe, before breaking party ranks to join all Democrats on the Senate Finance in support of health care reform, said the most accurate thing of the day: "This will not be the final bill." Knowing that fact, one wonders why Snowe wanted to wait for a more...
Movement To Block Bernanke Gathers Steam
The renomination of Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve should not be rubber-stamped by the Senate until Bernanke and the Fed are more transparent and accountable to the public, says a growing coalition of activists roused by Reps. Alan Grayson and Ron...
A Recipe For Another Financial Debacle
As the House Financial Services Committee begins markup on Wednesday of key financial reform legislation, the stakes are clear. Without strong regulation of the banks and the shadow banking system, large banks will feel free to gamble with the assumption that...
The American People: Smarter Than They Look On TV
New public opinion research by the Economic Policy Institute contains reassuring findings. The American people are smarter than they sometimes look on TV. The survey of 802 registered voters in September 2009, revealed a clear sense of who’s winning and who’s losing...
Insurance Companies Remind Public Why We Hate Them
Just as the Senate Finance Committee is about to pass a health care bill without a public option, the insurance lobby's last-minute hissy fit exposed the weakness of its argument against a public option. America’s Health Insurance Plans, the main insurance lobby...
Progressive Breakfast - 10/13/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Insurance Lobby Misfires Before Finance Vote Sen. Baucus tells USA Today he has a majority for today's health care cmte vote, but it is still unknown if Sen....
Mending America's Torn Social Fabric
In closely knit communities, people care about each other and help each other, too. But healthy “social fabrics,” as the expression goes, can tear. Inequality can tear them. The wider the income gaps between us, the less we share in common, the less we...
