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Bloomberg Reports Derivatives Regulatory Legislation Contains Large Loopholes

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Credit Derivatives, Regulatory Reform, Derivatives, Financial Regulations, Derivatives Reform, Barney Frank, Business News

Hey kids! Were you holding out hope that someone might do something to robustly regulate the derivatives market that wrought such wrack and ruin to th...

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Wells Fargo Credit-Card Rates To Rise Ahead of Law

bloomberg.com | Peter Eichenbaum | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Credit Card Rates, Credit Cards, Credit, Wells Fargo, Barney Frank, Business News

Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Wells Fargo & Co. plans to raise interest rates on a majority of credit-card customers by 3 percentage points before new rules l...

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Hoyer: Financial Reform Floor Vote Coming Next Month

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Steny Hoyer, House Democrats, Regulatory Reform, Barney Frank, Financial Reform, Financial Regulatory Overhaul, House Financial Services Committee, Politics News

Look for financial regulatory reform to get a House floor vote in November, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday. "We expect to bring that bill t...

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Financial Reform: House Lawmakers Weighs Limits On Hedge Funds, Insurers

AP | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Sec, Securities and Exchange Commission, Hedge Funds, Barney Frank, House Financial Services Committee, Financial Reform, Business News

WASHINGTON — House lawmakers crafting legislation to overhaul the system of financial regulation are focusing on the key elements of investor pr...

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The Best Little Whorehouse in Washington

David Sirota | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Democrat Coalition, Wall Street, Bloomberg News, K Street, Roll Call, Lobbyists, Barney Frank, Finance Industry, Lobbying Industry, Democratic Party, Banking Industry, Joseph Crowley, Politics News

In just the first half of 2009, the 15 New Democrats on Financial Services committee "received about $1.9 million in contributions from the finance, insurance and real estate industries."

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Prediction Impossible: How Protecting Consumers Is Like Protecting the Environment

Harry Moroz | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Heritage Foundation, David John, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Financial Crisis, Barney Frank, Frbsf, Business News

By using consumer well-being as a first principal, the Consumer Financial Protection Agency will consider the social costs of financial innovations.

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Top Republican Calls Proposed Consumer Protection Agency "Fundamentally Flawed"

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour and Jeff Muskus | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Barney Frank, Cfpa, Financial Crisis, Spencer Bachus, Financial Regulation, Business News

In a move sure to delight bankers, the top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday called the Obama administration's plan fo...

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Congress Has a Responsibility to Establish Strong Consumer Financial Protection

Janis Bowdler | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Consumer Protection, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, House Financial Services Committee, Barney Frank, Business News

Congress has a responsibility to plug the holes in a broken financial system that allowed millions of families to watch their savings and wealth evaporate and their debt skyrocket

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JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon: Banks Shouldn't Be Too Big To Fail, Except When They Are

bloomberg.com | David Reilly | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Bloomberg, Treasury Department, JPMorgan Chase, Financial Reform, Barney Frank, Too Big to Fail, Banks, David Reilly, Obama Administration, Jamie Dimon, Business News

Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) -- It was surprising to hear JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Jamie Dimon say, "It would be a very bad long-term policy error...

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Why We Need Robust Consumer Financial Protection

Hilary O. Shelton | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Economy, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Barney Frank, Consumer Protection Agency, Hilary Shelton, Credit Card Debt, Credit Cards, Consumer Protection, Credit Card Industry, Naacp, House Financial Services Committee, Business News

Our current system of consumer protection fails to protect Americans from basic exploitation and abuses that can cost individuals and families hundreds of thousands of dollars, and even their homes.

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Simon Johnson: Financial Reform Efforts Entering Crucial Period

washingtonpost.com | Simon Johnson and James Kwak | Posted 11.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Health Care Reform, Financial Crisis, Obama Administration, Treasury Department, Senate Finance Committee, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Barney Frank, Business News

The next couple of months will be crucial in determining the shape of the financial system for decades to come. And so far, the signs are not encourag...

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Extra! Extra! Pay Czar Will Not Cap Compensation, Reveal Names

Les Leopold | Posted 11.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Pay Czar, Wall Street, Barack Obama, Economic Crisis, Barney Frank, Business News

Is this a great country or what? You can be a speculator working for a failed company and still earn tens of millions of dollars. And the taxpayer footing the bill won't be able to find out who's getting how much.

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Regulation? They're Banking on the Status Quo

Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Plain Vanilla, Mortgages, Credit Cards, Hedge Funds, House Banking Committee, Senate Banking Committee, Financial Services Regulation, Barney Frank, Banking Regulation, Christopher Dodd, Richard Shelby, Financial Services Industry, Chris Dodd, Financial Regulation, Politics News

There were those who expected the financial-services industry to slink away in embarrassment after the setbacks of the past year. These people misjudged us.

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House Pushes For Sweeping Audit Of The Fed

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Federal Reserve Investigation, House of Representatives, Congress, Federal Reserve Audit, Barney Frank, President Obama, Economic Crisis, Business News, Financial Crisis, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Fed Audit, Business News

WASHINGTON — House lawmakers want to pry open the books of the famously secretive Federal Reserve with legislation that would subject the centra...

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Barney Frank, Bill O'Reilly Face Off Over ACORN (VIDEO)

Posted 11.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Barney Frank and Bill O'reilly, Video, Acorn, Bill O'Reilly, Bill O'reilly Video, Barney Frank Video, Barney Frank and Bill O'reilly Acorn, Barney Frank, Media News

Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) faced off against Bill O'Reilly tonight over ACORN and the scandal engulfing them. Despite recent meetings in whic...

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Barney Frank On Consumer Agency Plan: Scale It Back

Yahoo! News | Kevin Drawbaugh | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Barney Frank, Consumer Agency, Barack Obama, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Cfpa, Business News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The Congress' chief author of financial regulatory reform moved on Tuesday to kill the most controversial part of an Obama adm...

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Barney Frank Mocks Limbaugh's Drug Use, Sarah Palin On Leno (VIDEO)

Posted 11.21.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Video, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Leno, Barney Frank, Addiction, Painkillers, Glenn Beck, Pills, Comedy News

It's a safe bet that Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Rush Limbaugh don't have any dinner plans. Frank called out the conservative radio host for his ...

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Frank Bites Back, Demands Retraction Of Blue Dog Comments In Politico

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Retraction, Walt Minnick, Council, Barney Frank, Recession, Larry Summers, Reform, Regulation, Community Banks, Blue Dog Coalition, Wall Street, Cfpa, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Financial Services Committee, Politico, Blue Dogs, Banks, Economy, Politics News

Backers of President Obama's cornerstone financial regulatory reform proposal pushed back Monday against the Blue Dog Coalition, which is promoting a ...

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Holocaust Survivor Fights Protesters Comparing Obama To Hitler

Seattle Times | Lynn Thompson | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nazi Germany, Health Care Debate, Holocaust, Hitler Mustache, Barney Frank, President Obama, Edmonds Market, Healthcare Reform, Lyndon Larouche, Politics News

As a child in Armenia, Henry Gasparian witnessed firsthand the horrors of Nazi Germany. Two uncles were killed, his father wounded and a brother starv...

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My Coffee with Rep. Jared Polis

David Thielen | Posted 11.17.2009 | Denver

Read More: Jared Polis, Lafayette, Town Hall Meetings, Barney Frank, Colorado, Denver, Denver News

I met with Rep. Jared Polis this afternoon at Canyon Mine Coffee in Lafayette. I swear, Jared has so much energy that if we could plug him in to the p...

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Reminder: Baucus Takes A Ton Of Health Industry Money

Jenna Staul | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Health Care Reform, Lobbyblog, Barney Frank, Business News

The Associated Press reports that Sen. Max Baucus has received more donations from the health care industry -- $3.9 million since 1989 -- than any oth...

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Staffer Turned Lobbyist Told To Wait Another Year Before Contacting Hill Colleagues

Jenna Staul | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Lobbyblog, Barney Frank, Business News

Bloomberg reports that the head Washington lobbyist for Goldman Sachs has been forbidden to communicate with Democrats on the House Financial Services...

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Fed Audit Bill Reaches 290 Cosponsors

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Fed, Fed Audit, Barney Frank, Federal Reserve, Alan Grayson, House Financial Services Committee, Business News

The House bill that would shine a light on the Federal Reserve reached 290 cosponsors on Wednesday. Authored by longtime crusader for Fed transparenc...

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Obama: I Will "Do Everything I Can" To Stop Banks From Killing Safety Agency

Bloomberg | Rich Miller and Julianna Goldman | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Michelle Obama, Senate Finance Committee, Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, Economy, Barney Frank, President Obama, Commerce Department, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, Chris Dodd, Sheila Bair, Banking Industry, China, Politics News

President Barack Obama said job losses are "bottoming out" and the U.S. economy looks to be growing again even as he warned against cutting off govern...

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Obama Heads To Wall Street To Urge Reform

Washington Post | Brady Dennis | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

President Obama will head to Wall Street on Monday to try to breathe new life into efforts to overhaul the financial regulatory system, an undertaking...

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