trueslant.com - 10/23/2009
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Beyond monitoring how the government is mopping up after the financial crisis, Warren is pushing a proposal that could help prevent the next one: creating a Financial Product Safety Commission to protect consumers from abusive lenders. Mortgages and credit cards, she wrote in a 2007 journal ...
finance.yahoo.com - 10/18/2009
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finance.yahoo.com —
Elizabeth Warren may be the American consumer's new
best friend. Warren, charged with overseeing the U.S. banking...
bailout (formally known as TARP), is pushing an agency that's devoted to looking out for individual Americans. The proposed Consumer ...
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"Astonishing" That Big Banks Are Taking ...
journals.democraticunderground.com - 10/18/2009
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journals.democraticunderground.com —
Interview with Elizabeth Warren, chair of the Congressional
Oversight Panel created to oversee the U.S. banking bailout,...
formally known as TARP, by Lois Romano of The Washington Post. - snip - ROMANO: "There's a wonderful moment in the movie where he ...
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Elizabeth Warren: "I Believe Middle Class is Under ...
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The Big Picture —
A few interesting items
• Elizabeth Warren for President (True Slant)
• The New $1 Million Bill (Bloomberg)
• Systemic Risk in the Financial System: Insights from Network Science (PEW)
• Mona Lisa’s smile a mystery no more (New Scientist)
Anything catch your collective eye?
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Links 10/24/09
naked capitalism —
... between the Street and everyone else. And note how the Goldman guys absolutely do not get that the firm would be a pile of smoldering ashes were it not for public support.
Glass Steagall on steroids now Diane Francis, Financial Post
Talking Out of Their You-Know-Whats Michael Panzner
WSJ Presents Yet More Utter Nonsense from the National Association of Realtors Dean Baker
Transcript: George Soros interview Financial Times
Elizabeth Warren for President Matt Taibbi
The truth about banks and dogs Chan ...
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