Congressional Oversight Panel

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Elizabeth Warren Talks Death Of The Middle Class On Morning Joe (VIDEO)

Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tarp, Morning Joe, Elizabeth Warren, Middle Class, Mika Brzezinski, Congressional Oversight Panel, Politics News

Elizabeth Warren, chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel created to monitor TARP and a Huffington Post blogger, appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe ea...

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Bailout Watchdog: Obama Foreclosure Plan Inadequate, New Direction Needed

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 12.09.2009 | Business

This story has been updated Add Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law professor-turned-crusader for Main Street and the middle class, to the growing list...

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Obama Administration To Shame Lenders That Don't Offer To Modify Mortgages

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosure Crisis, Making Home Affordable, Elizabeth Warren, Mortgage Servicers, Mha, Home Affordable Modification, Homeowners, Barack Obama, Mortgages, Hamp, Bailout Bandits, Loan Modifications, Bailout, Financial Crisis, Foreclosure, Congressional Oversight Panel, Business News

Its signature foreclosure-prevention plan having definitively failed to actually help very many homeowners, the Obama administration today announced ...

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Elizabeth Warren: Financial Rules 'Literally Don't Work Anymore,' Regulations Should Be 'Clear And Painful'

Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: James Surowiecki, Elizabeth Warren, Elizabeth Warren Consumer Financing, The New Yorker, Financial Firms, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Elizabeth Warren Harvard Law, Congressional Oversight Panel, Business News

Elizabeth Warren, a professor at Harvard Law School who has more recently assumed the role of chairwoman of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the ...

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For The "Lucky Few" Who Renegotiate Their Mortgages, Towering Debt Remains

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Subprime Mortgages, Loan Modifications, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Mortgage Crisis, Home Affordable Modification, Financial Crisis, Homeowners, Congressional Oversight Panel, Business News

A Huffington Post analysis of recent mortgage-modification data shows that even those relatively few homeowners fortunate enough to renegotiate their ...

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Elizabeth Warren: Bank Bonuses Leave Me "Speechless" (VIDEO)

Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Hank Paulson, Bailout, TARP Money, Economy, Congressional Oversight Panel, Bank Bonuses, Business News

In a recent interview with Yahoo Tech Ticker's Aaron Task, Elizabeth Warren, chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel, said she was "speechless" ove...

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One Company Responsible For Nearly Half Of All Permanent Mortgage Modifications

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Making Home Affordable, Mortgage Servicers, Wells Fargo, Ocwen, Bank of America, Barack Obama, JPMorgan Chase, Mortgages, Loan Modifications, Subprime Mortgages, Bailout Bandits, Bailout, Bailout Watchdog, Financial Crisis, Congressional Oversight Panel, Business News

Nearly half of the permanent home loan modifications under the government's plan to help troubled borrowers come from a single company that handles le...

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How The Middle Class Got Squeezed: Charles Hugh Smith

DailyFinance | Charles Hugh Smith | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Elizabeth Warren, Middle Class Wages, Charles Hugh Smith, Middle Class, Globalization, Financial Innovation, Congressional Oversight Panel, Business News

The current recession has stoked deep-seated fears about a declining middle class. A great collective anxiety about such a decline has been floating a...

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Auto Bailout Could Leave Taxpayers With Heavy Losses

Ap | Christopher S. Rugaber, AP Economics Writer | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Auto Bailout, Taxpayer Losses, Chrysler, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Gm, Ford, Congressional Oversight Panel, Business News

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Taxpayers face losses on a significant portion of the $81 billion in government aid provided to the auto industry, an oversight pan...

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Elizabeth Warren Talks Toxic Assets On MSNBC (VIDEO)

Posted 09.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Geithner, Elizabeth Warren, Toxic Assets, Congressional Oversight Panel, Business News

Elizabeth Warren, the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel charged with monitoring the bank bailout, appeared on MSNBC this morning to talk toxi...

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Where Is The Bank Bailout Money Going? (VIDEO)

Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Elizabeth Warren, Elizabeth Warren Goes to Washington, $700 Billion Bailout, Bank Bailout, Congressional Oversight Panel, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Business News

Where exactly is all of the bailout money going? Today, McClatchy addresses growing concerns over the lack of true oversight in government's enormous ...

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Ignoring Watchdog Report, Treasury Gives Three Major Banks Sweetheart Deals

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Geithner, State Street Corporation Bailout, Bailout Sweetheart Deals, Bailout, Geithner Bailout, U.S. Bancorp Bailout, Financial Crisis, Bailout Banks, Congressional Oversight Panel, BB&T Bailout, Sweetheart Deals, Politics News

Less than two weeks after a congressional watchdog called attention to backroom deals in which the Treasury Department repurchased stock warrants from...

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TARP Watchdog: We Should Have Semi-Regular Stress Tests

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tarp, Neiman Stress Tests, TARP COP, Congressional Oversight Panel, Banks Stress Tests, Richard Neiman, Politics News

One of the five members of the TARP Oversight Committee said on Monday that the government would be wise to run regular stress tests of the nation's b...

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TARP Watchdog: Stress Tests Relied On Too Rosy A Scenario

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 07.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Stress Tests, Bailout, TARP Watchdog, Economy, Bank Stress Tests, Financial Crisis, Stress Tests Not Enough, Congressional Oversight Panel, Tarp, Business News

WASHINGTON — A government test of whether 19 major banks could survive a further downturn in the economy may have relied on too rosy a scenario ...

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Message Delivered: Timothy Geithner Answers Questions from Huffington Post Readers

Richard H. Neiman | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tarp, HuffPost Readers, Timothy Geithner, TARP Oversight, Bailout, Congressional Oversight Panel, Politics News

On measuring progress, your questions made it even clearer to me that Treasury has to do a better job communicating the success, or failure, of its efforts.

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Fish Can Count and Monkeys Can Subtract

Lee Schneider | Posted 05.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Intelligent Animals, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Social Animals, Jon Stewart, Tarp, Wall Street Talent, Congressional Oversight Panel, Business News

The qualities present in fish and monkeys, being social and caring about their fellows, have gone missing in some bankers.

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Arm the COP on the Bank Beat

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pecora Commission, Banking Crisis, Congressional Oversight Panel, Nancy Pelosi, Timothy Geithner, Economic Crisis, Richard Neiman, Politics News

We want to know what happened. We want those responsible to be held accountable and we want to make certain it can't happen again. Will Congress step up?

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Elizabeth Warren To Geithner: "People Are Angry"

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Timothy Geithner, TARP Oversight, Elizabeth Warren, Congressional Oversight Panel, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Politics News

In her opening statement at Tuesday's Congressional Oversight Panel hearing on the Trouble Asset Relief Program, COP chairwoman Elizabeth Warren told ...

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TARP Oversight Panel Says It's Been Ignored By Geithner And Paulson

Congress Daily | By Bob Kemper | Posted 04.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Damon Silvers, Geithner and Paulson, Congressional Oversight Panel, TARP Oversight Panel, Ignore Oversight Panel, Financial Crisis, Business News

The Congressional Oversight Panel, the group charged with overseeing how the federal government allocates $700 billion to prop up the nation's financi...

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