by Zach Carter | Jul 27, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
No reformers question whether Elizabeth Warren is the best candidate to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She's a lauded scholar, an inspiring advocate who will draw talented and dedicated reformers to the new agency and she came up with the whole...
by Zach Carter | Jul 15, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
Wall Street reform passed Congress today, with three Republicans voting "yes," among them Scott Brown of Massachusetts. But Brown's vote came with a high price tag: he insisted on both hammering ordinary citizens with new taxes, instead of imposing them on the...
by Zach Carter | Jul 15, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
Good news: The Senate just secured 60 votes to proceed on Wall Street reform, clearing the way for the legislation's final passage today or Saturday. The legislation garnered the votes of every Democrat except Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., who argued that the bill was...
by Zach Carter | Jul 14, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
Too-big-to-fail is a much bigger problem than you thought. We've all read damning accounts of the government saving banks from their risky subprime bets, but it turns out that the Wall Street privilege problem is far more deeply ingrained in the U.S. legal system than...
by Bill Scher | Jul 11, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
The following was my contribution to The Hill's weekly "blogger face-off," as the conservative Ace of Spades and myself answered the question "Like Sen. Graham said, will the Tea Party movement die out?" Tea Party: Nothing New. Nothing Big. Was GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham...
by Mary Bottari | Jul 8, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
You know that Wall Street reform bill pending in the Senate? Some last minute insertions add up to a surprisingly big win for the developing world. Oil Companies Required to Detail the Dough Paid to Foreign Governments First, kudos to Senators Dick Lugar (R-Indiana)...
