As bad as it's going to be for the compromising Democrats in this election, it will be a bloodbath if the economic scene comes unglued -- because then, the racist nonsense in Arizona will look like a picnic.
Franken's measure was creative, but the diverse range of qualifications among the approved rating agencies is frightening to contemplate if a random assignment was the norm.
As Obama today returns to Cooper Union to reprise his arguments for financial regulatory reform, we know this: whatever the ultimate legal merits of the SEC's case against Goldman Sachs, the political impact now will be a game changer.
Mortgages with skyrocketing interest rates and other hidden costs. Unregulated financial markets slipping through the cracks--the list of reasons for ...
Sen. Dodd's proposed financial reform bill creates a consumer protection watchdog, a financial oversight council to monitor systemic risk and a new office to oversee credit rating agencies.
It's the end of the month and we're wrapping up the conversation on our March HuffPost book club pick on rebuilding capitalism from the wreck of the financial crisis.
Senator Chris Dodd has good political antennae. He knows that his financial reform bill will come under severe pressure because it has a weak heart -- the provisions that deal with "too big to fail" are simply "too weak to make any sense."
We live in a three card monte world. Follow the money as it moves from one shell to another. Now guess where it is.
Jane D'Arista and Gerald Epstein SAFER and Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts, Amherst Senator Dodd has filed a...
With the bankers all over Capitol Hill advocating for these reforms, it is entirely unnecessary that anyone else do so. There is no need to find out more about the bill, or to contact your congressman.
Senator Dodd should stop playing tough guy with the banks and do something they would really hate -- make them tell the truth.
Today, Sen. Christopher Dodd will unveil his financial regulatory reform legislation to the Senate Banking Committee. Based on some predictions, the b...
We're not likely to get sufficient reform this year. But, if a few legislators pay the penalty for taking the bank lobby money and voting the bank lobby program -- things may get a lot simpler next year.
The big national news story on Wednesday was that Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) would not seek reelection for his senate seat, a position he has held for nearly three decades.
HARTFORD, Conn. — Christopher Dodd was expected to announce his retirement Wednesday after five terms in the U.S. Senate and Connecticut's popul...
As you have no doubt heard by now, Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) will not be seeking a sixth term in office. My first reaction: Good riddance. Whi...
A new agency is essential. If Republicans want to stand with banks rather than consumers, let them. Bring the bill up, let Republicans filibuster it. Take that argument into the fall elections.
Even as consumers suffer the housing crisis and an abysmal job market, they face the prospect of hundreds or even thousands more dollars of credit card debt because of Congress.
Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd, one of the few senators to publicly support full marriage equality, will announce today that he is bowing out of the N...
Teddy never did endorse Senator Dodd for president, and I can't imagine how that may have hurt him. If it did, he never showed it to his staff -- and so people like me who worked for Dodd briefly bore a grudge that our boss would not.
It's seemingly unanimous among observers of the 2010 Senate races that the most vulnerable incumbent Democratic Senator next year is Senator Dodd. Here are six reasons why Dodd will win re-election.
WASHINGTON — The Senate ethics panel cleared Sens. Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad Friday of breaking rules by getting mortgages through a VIP progra...
You well know that tens of millions of Americans without health insurance remain sleepless when they or a loved one become ill. And I know you're fighting to change that. Thank you.
There's ironclad proof that Sen. Dodd's accuser in a mortgage scandal lied from the start. But some reporters aren't interested in facts that undercut the scandal narrative.
We were united in our praise of Sen. Dodd and other members of the Senate for making history by passing the first health-reform bill out of a congressional committee.
