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Wall Street Bank Lobby Faces 'Live Ammo' As Lawmakers Ponder Breaking Up Big Banks

bloomberg.com | Alison Vekshin and Robert Schmidt | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank Lobby, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wall Street, Lobbying, Financial Services Forum, Lobbyists, Paul Kanjorski, Glass-Steagall, Too Big to Fail. Financial Reform, Business News

Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Seven Wall Street lobbyists trooped to Capitol Hill on Nov. 9, hoping to convince Representative Paul Kanjorski's staff that hi...

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Obama's Consumer Agency: Banks Fight To Protect Fees

bloomberg.com | Alison Vekshin | Posted 07.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Consumer Protection Agency, Obama Financial Reform, Bank Lobby, Bank Fees, Business News

June 25 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. banks are fighting the Obama administration plan to create a consumer agency for financial services as they seek to protec...

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Banks Lobby To Be Both Buyers and Sellers In Troubled Asset Program

wsj.com | DAVID ENRICH, LIZ RAPPAPORT and JENNY STRASBURG | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Investment Banks, Goldman Sachs, Fdic, Bank Lobby, Private Public Investment Program, Wells Fargo, Ppip, Banking Regulation, Bank of America, Banking Crisis, Citigroup, American Bankers Association, Business News

Some banks are prodding the government to let them use public money to help buy troubled assets from the banks themselves. Banking trade groups are...

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Corruption Is Dangerous to Your Health

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Paid Sick Leave, Corrupt Congress, Bank Lobby, Workers, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Republicans, Workers Rights, Politics News
Robert L. Borosage

In area after area, Americans are suffering from the accumulated corruptions of our moneyed politics.

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