Bank Lobbying

It Turns Out 2011 Was A Pretty Great Year For Banks

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.08.2012

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By almost any measure, 2011 was a rocky year -- high unemployment, volatile markets, rising poverty, protests in the streets. Thankfully, the banks ma...

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Bank Lobbying On Track To Hit Record High This Year

Posted 11.21.2011

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Big banks are on track to spend a record amount lobbying lawmakers this year. The five banks that spend the most on lobbying have boosted their lo...

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JPMorgan Almost Doubles Lobbying Spending In Third Quarter

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

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The 10 biggest banks in the U.S. spent almost $11 million lobbying the government on financial reform legislation and other issues during the third qu...

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After Hobnobbing With Bankers, McConnell Attacks Wall Street Reform

Chris Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

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In return for obstructing Democratic legislation to hold Wall Street CEOs accountable, Republican lawmakers are pressing bankers for financial help heading into the November elections.

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How Voters Support Corruption

Stephen Claflin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Is it just possible that the reason we voters don't get what we want from Congress is because we don't ask? And paid lobbyists do get what they want because they do ask?

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The Ruse of Too Big to Fail

Sam Zamarripa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tarp, Dodd Bill, Wall Street, Cfpa, Banks, Financial Crisis, Chris Dodd, Bank Lobbying, Too Big to Fail, Finance Reform, Business News

Yes, systemic risks exist and interconnectivity extends risk into the fabric of our lives and businesses, but how did that risk get transferred to the federal government, then to you and me?

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Basically, America Spent All That TARP Money On Lobbyists

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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So if taxpayers, having bailed out the financial sector with billions of TARP dollars, didn't get jobs or oversight or consumer protection or a return...

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"Golden Throne" Award for Securities and Bank Lobbyist

Mary Bottari | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Banking Crisis, Bank Lobbying, Lobbyists, Economic Crisis, Merrill Lynch, Sifma, Bank of America, Too Big to Fail, Financial Meltdown, Citigroup, Business News

This year's award goes to SIFMA (the lobbying group for banks like Citigroup and B of A) who created a multinational "cashroots" campaign to portray its clients as "part of the solution" to the financial crisis.

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Ed Yingling: Banking Industry's Top Defender Got It Wrong Over and Over Again

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the American Bankers Association gathers for its annual convention in Chicago amid hundreds of protesters, and sets off to kill or at least defang ...

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Wall St. Lobbyists Fight ‘Populist Overreaction'

bloomberg.com | Robert Schmidt | Posted 05.25.2011

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june 25 (Bloomberg) -- Wall Street's largest trade group has started a campaign to counter the "populist" backlash against bankers, enlisting two form...

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Ailing Banks Still Wield Influence On Capitol Hill

New York Times | STEPHEN LABATON | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON - As he often does, President Obama took the opportunity in a bill-signing ceremony last month to remind Congress - to do what we were actu...

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How The Banks Plotted To Fight Off Regulatory Overhaul

New York Times | GRETCHEN MORGENSON and DON VAN NATTA Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the financial crisis entered one of its darkest phases in October, a handful of the nation's largest banks began holding daily telephone sessions. ...

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THE INFLUENCE GAME: Banks shift bankruptcy tactics

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Big banks, scrambling to prevent the government from forcing them to rewrite mortgages for struggling homeowners, are using their l...

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