Ryan Grim, Naomi Klein Discuss 'Audit The Fed' Bill On MSNBC (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post's Ryan Grim appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Meeting" Thursday, alongside author Naomi Klein, to discuss the Ron Paul/Alan Grayson bil...
The Huffington Post's Ryan Grim appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Meeting" Thursday, alongside author Naomi Klein, to discuss the Ron Paul/Alan Grayson bil...
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.19.2009 | Business
An unusual coalition of progressive economists, labor leaders, and bloggers has decided to fight back against a congressional amendment that would all...
Reuters | Kevin Drawbaugh | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A key U.S. congressional panel moved toward toughening a plan for dealing with "too big to fail" financial firms on Tuesday, wh...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
In the midst of what was supposed to be a Congressional push for increased financial regulation and accountability, a powerful coalition of moneyed in...
thenation.com | William Greider | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
The Obama administration promised to reform the financial system and make it safe for the rest of us, but recent Congressional action is more likely t...
Wall Street Journal | DAMIAN PALETTA and MICHAEL R. CRITTENDEN | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Democrats are advancing proposals in Congress designed to limit the size and complexity of financial companies so that any collapse wouldn't damage th...
Patrice Hill | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
An unusual alliance of conservatives and liberals is pushing to break up or downsize banks deemed "too big to fail," rather than create a new regulato...
boston.com | Michael Kranish | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank, under fire from some fellow Democrats and consumer groups for carving out what...
Rolfe Winkler | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business
An amendment that would permanently exempt small public companies from complying with a key provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act advanced in Congress t...
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
On Wednesday morning on MSNBC's Morning Meeting, Dylan Ratigan railed against the current debate in the House Financial Services Committee about syste...
Dean Baker | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business
The only people who seem to stand outside the consensus that too-big-to-fail banks are unacceptable are those who hold power and are steering the process of financial reform.
Jose A. Garcia | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
Since the passage of the Credit CARD Act of 2009, credit card companies have been jacking up interest rates in anticipation of February 22, 2010, when the law goes into full effect.
Norman I. Silber | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
Regulators appear to have placed a higher value on protecting the interests of those who sell financial products than on the interests of consumers of transparent, safe, and fair financial products.
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Senior congressional Democrats say legislation is still needed to limit how lenders charge customers who overspend on their account...
Harpers | Ken Silverstein | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business
If you want to understand why Congress seems completely incapable of checking the power of Wall Street, look back to a hearing on the Hill last Octobe...
AP | JIM KUHNHENN and ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — An Obama administration plan to dissolve large, struggling financial firms rather than bail them out is encountering Republican res...
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — A House committee voted Wednesday to set new rules for investment rating agencies, which lawmakers say misled investors by giving h...
The Huffington Post | Ryan MCCarthy | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
The Treasury Department and the House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank (D - Mass.) last night unveiled a sweeping new bill that atte...
New York Times | STEPHEN LABATON | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
A senior administration official said on Sunday that after extensive consultations with Treasury Department officials, Representative Barney Frank, th...
New York Times | GRETCHEN MORGENSON | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics
It certainly sounded good. Hoping, perhaps, to persuade a dubious public that curbing reckless business practices is indeed a Washington priority, t...
Reuters | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - The Obama administration plans to unveil on Monday a new plan for dealing with troubled financial giants, said a senior...
Steve Parker | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business
The House Financial Services Committee approved a key amendment Thursday, 47-21, to keep automobile dealers exempt them from a new government consumer protection agency.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
The proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency took another step forward Thursday in the House, moving out of the Financial Services Committee -- a...
David Donnelly | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.) has taken $170,550 in campaign contributions from auto dealers. Who do you think he wants to exempt from the provisions of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency bill?
Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics