When it comes to the fight over financial reform, Democrats are making the same mistake they did with health care: failing to put the effect reform would have on the lives of real Americans front and center.

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This story has been updated After months of criticizing the Obama administration's proposal to create a consumer-focused agency dedicated to protecti...

Bank lobbyists are fighting to derail a key element of consumer protection which they fought to preserve just four years ago, threatening to kill fina...

Americans often suffer sticker shock when they hear about interest rates charged in international microfinance. At annualized rates above 20 percent, ...

Primate parts smuggled inside cases of fish. Suitcases stuffed with dried duiker antelope that's later sold door to door. These are the hallmarks of the unregulated, underground bushmeat trade in America.

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Ask Elizabeth Warren, scourge of Wall Street bankers, how they treat consumers, and her no-nonsense bob will shake with indignation....

One of the more contentious issues in the debate over financial regulatory reform has to do with whether tough state consumer protection laws should c...

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I'd be remiss if I didn't point readers to the Daily Show's wonderful segment on Congressional efforts to institute some measure of financial regulatory reform.

There are two consumer protection amendments getting serious attention on the Senate floor this week, one of them positive, one of them incredibly destructive -- the kind of amendment that can actually sink the bill if adopted.

Currently, there is no limit on what the operator of an ATM can charge a consumer for using that machine. This is unfair and it is a policy we must address head on.

Senator Bob Corker, the Tennessee Republican who is playing a crucial role in bipartisan negotiations over financial regulation, pressed to remove a p...