Women are leading the charge on financial reform. In the spirit of celebrating their contributions, I've put together a list of the top five heroes of 2009, in the hopes that their work will inspire us in the coming year.
Posted 12.12.2009 | Media
Elizabeth Warren, chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel created to monitor the bank bailouts under TARP, and a Huffington Post blogger, has been ...
Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics
Elizabeth Warren, chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel created to monitor TARP and a Huffington Post blogger, appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe ea...
Bob Burnett | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics
2009's biggest story was not the economy, health care, or the escalation of the war in Afghanistan, but rather the resurrection of America's largest b...
Washington Post | David Cho | Posted 12.10.2009 | Business
The Obama administration is developing a major initiative to tackle the economic and political problem of unemployment by getting federal bailout fund...
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...
Elizabeth Warren | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business
Can you imagine an America without a strong middle class? If you can, would it still be America as we know it?
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business
Its signature foreclosure-prevention plan having definitively failed to actually help very many homeowners, the Obama administration today announced ...
Tom Sullivan | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business
The difference between a privately owned business and a public corporation is indeed personhood and personal responsibility. The birthers want to see Obama's birth certificate? I want to see Goldman Sachs' and Halliburton's.
bloomberg.com | Posted 11.19.2009 | Business
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- In Elizabeth Warren's world, credit card contracts would be so simple a teenager could read and understand them in four minutes...
Robyn O'Brien | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green
In the face of current rates of cancer, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer's and allergies, our families are no longer guaranteed a healthy livelihood. We need a new food system. It's our health on the line.
Posted 11.17.2009 | Business
Elizabeth Warren, a professor at Harvard Law School who has more recently assumed the role of chairwoman of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the ...
The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business
Elizabeth Warren, the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel charged with monitoring the bank bailout, was on Morning Joe Friday morning to dig in...
James P. Hoffa | Posted 10.31.2009 | Business
When it comes to carhaul drivers, automakers are failing to meet their end of the bailout bargain and taxpayers should hold them accountable.
David A. Love | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books
Throughout history we have witnessed the ways in which societies compromise their legal systems to oppress the many, benefit the few, and sanction the unconscionable.
Posted 10.29.2009 | Business
"A New Agenda for America"- On the 80th Anniversary of Great Crash, What Have We Learned and What Lies Ahead? 80 years ago today, on October 29th...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
The person leading a regulatory agency is often more important than the structure and the scope of its powers. Think of Alberto Gonzales or Elliot Spi...
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 10.24.2009 | Business
The reality is that, even if you are a female executive at Goldman Sachs, you will never be part of the "boys' club" -- and guess what, it's still a boys' club.
George Goehl | Posted 10.24.2009 | Business
We've reached an incredible moment when Alan Greenspan, Michael Moore, FDIC head Sheila Bair and Elizabeth Warren are all singing the same tune: calling for breaking up the big banks.
Slate Magazine | Daniel Gross | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business
This year, compensation will again eat up something close to a majority of Wall Street's revenues. And while Goldman and Morgan Stanley have paid back...
True/Slant | Matt Taibbi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business
We're coming up on the one- year anniversary of Barack Obama's election. I think it's maybe time that we asked ourselves how he's doing. He didn't ...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business
The House Financial Services Committee passed a watered-down version of the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency Thursday morning. In the wo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim and Jason Linkins | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Jason Linkins contributed to this story. As Members of Congress debate the most sweeping reform of the financial industry in decades, some are workin...
Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
In a recent interview with Yahoo Tech Ticker's Aaron Task, Elizabeth Warren, chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel, said she was "speechless" ove...
David A. Love | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
American-style capitalism is the system that gives you pilots buying groceries with food stamps and sheriffs throwing families out of their homes. President Obama, it's time for a "new" New Deal.
Joe Costello | Posted 12.30.2009 | Business