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Elizabeth Warren Takes Conciliatory Tone With Bankers

By | 09.30.10 | 10:51 am

Yesterday evening, Elizabeth Warren, responsible for setting up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, spoke at a meeting of the Financial Services Roundtable, a trade association for the country’s biggest banks.

In the past, Warren has lambasted banks for purposefully creating opaque, obscure products to make a buck off of More…

Time to Fix the Bailout of all Bailouts

By | 10.28.08 | 9:01 am

Economist and former Labor Sec. Robert Reich, who spoke out early and forcefully in opposition to the $700-billion Treasury Dept., rescue plan, is back again, this time More…