Senate Financial Reform Bill

Ending Interconnectedness: It's Already in the Bill

SAFER | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jane D'Arista University of Massachusetts, Amherst, SAFER www.peri.umass.edu/safer On the eve of the proposed debate on the Restoring Financial Stab...

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Harry Reid Plans Second Wall Street Reform Vote For Tuesday

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is proceeding quickly with a second vote on Wall Street reform legislation, bringing a bill to the floor of...

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Harry Reid Forces Filibustering GOP Senators To Come To The Floor

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Democrats are using a variety of parliamentary maneuvers to make obstructing Wall Street reform difficult for the GOP. Senate Majority Leader Harry Re...

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Wall Street and Health Insurers: The Hubris of Greed

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 05.25.2011

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If Main Street does not speak up loudly and constantly like it did for health care reform, it will only have itself to blame.

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Financial Reform: Banks Still Have Billions At Stake As Bill Nears

BusinessWeek | Robert Schmidt and Ian Kats | Posted 05.25.2011

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June 21 (Bloomberg) -- While Congress puts finishing touches on its financial-regulatory overhaul, Wall Street lobbyists are preparing for a new battl...

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Sheila Bair, FDIC Chief: Reform Bill Will Make Bailouts 'Impossible'

American Banker | Rob Blackwell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Would this bill perpetuate bailouts? SHEILA BAIR: The status quo is bailouts. That's what we have now. If you don't do anything, you are going to kee...

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Obama Administration To Big Bank Chiefs: Stop Lobbying Against Financial Reform

Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

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The White House is putting the full-court press on the financial industry to get it to stop resisting financial reform efforts that are making their w...

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Financial Reform: Five Ways To Tell If The Lobbyists Are Winning

Mother Jones | David Corn | Posted 05.25.2011

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Back in action after its two-week recess, Congress will soon take up its latest daunting legislative battle: rewriting the rules of the American finan...

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Volcker Optimistic About Financial Reform Bill

Reuters | Jonathan Spicer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reuters) - There is a good chance that a sweeping U.S. financial reform bill will be passed in a "reasonable form," White House economic adviser Paul ...

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Senate Dems Will Fight For Volcker Rule In Conference Negotiations: Merkley

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Senate approved its Wall Street reform package on Thursday night without including a critical amendment, cosponsored by Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore....

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CNBC's Kudlow: Dodd Bill Is 'Terrific Free Market Reform'

Posted 05.25.2011

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Free market champion and CNBC host Larry Kudlow thinks that the Dodd financial reform bill will zip through Congress. In a panel segment featuring s...

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Wall Street's Reaction To Financial Reform: 'A Sigh Of Relief'

New York Times | ERIC DASH and NELSON D. SCHWARTZ | Posted 05.25.2011

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The financial reform legislation making its way through Congress has Wall Street executives privately relieved that the bill does not do more to funda...

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The Volcker Rule: Bank Lobbyists Fight To Change 'Must' To 'May'

Huffington Post | Grace Kiser | Posted 05.25.2011

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As you may just have heard the devil is in the details. Or, in the case of the latest push to reform Wall Street, the devil is in whether or not the d...

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Deep Sixing Derivatives Reform: Stop the Cave-in!

SAFER | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jane D'Arista and Gerald Epstein SAFER and Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts, Amherst Senator Dodd has filed a...

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Let's Eliminate the Auto-Loan Loophole

Rep. Keith Ellison | Posted 05.25.2011

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It should come as no surprise that the auto loans are incredibly profitable for the industry -- more than half of Ford Motor Company's $2.7 billion 2009 profit came from its financing arm.

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Shelby Aide Tells Senator What CFPA Is, Dodd Says Consumer Agency Still In Reform Bill (VIDEO)

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Ben Protess and Danielle IvoryHuffington Post Investigative Fund WATCH: Has President Obama's plan to create a new consumer financial protection...

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