by Richard Eskow | Nov 17, 2015 | Blog, Financial Reform
The Glass-Steagall Act came up as a major point of disagreement between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton during Saturday's Democratic presidential debate. The act, which was originally enacted in 1933, separated risky trading and investment from traditional banking...
by Robert Reich | Nov 3, 2015 | Blog, Financial Reform
Much of the national debate about widening inequality focuses on whether and how much to tax the rich and redistribute their income downward. But this debate ignores the upward redistributions going on every day, from the rest of us to the rich. These redistributions...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 23, 2015 | Blog, Financial Reform
Senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has once again added his voice to a growing movement to bring banking to the United States Postal Service (USPS). "I want to see our post office be reinvigorated," Sanders said in a Fusion interview this week with...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 21, 2015 | Blog, Election 2016, Financial Reform
How do we fix Wall Street, a.k.a. "the banks"? How do the candidates compare? This question came up in the first Democratic debate and there has been lots of online commentary on this since. The first place to look, of course, is CAF's Candidate Scorecard. "The...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 5, 2015 | Financial Reform
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz today outlines the latest chapter in the war against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by the banking industry and its right-wing collaborators. It's in the form of a bill innocuously called the "Financial Product Safety...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 5, 2015 | Blog, Financial Reform
With corporate-conservative calls for full or partial privatization of the United States Postal Service (USPS) escalating, groups are sounding the alarm about new nominees to the USPS Board of Governors. The Senate is scheduled soon to consider the nominations of...
