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Zach Carter

Swipe Fee Fallout Has Small Banks Relishing Rare Advantage Over Wall Street

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 03.02.2012

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Last year's wild legislative melee over debit card swipe fees featured a curious contradiction: Although big Wall Street banks stood to lose the most ...

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Senator Lugs Unusual Baggage Back To Washington

The New York Times | Jennifer Steinhauer | Posted 01.11.2012

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The space between Senator Jon Tester's 1,800-acre ranch outside Big Sandy, Mont., and the nation's capital is metaphysically and culturally large. ...

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Zach Carter

Swipe Fee Shocker: Fed Caves To Wall Street

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 08.29.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve delivered the punchline Wednesday to the year-long joke that has been the lobbying blitz over debit card swipe fees....

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Zach Carter

Tester Backpedals On Swipe Fees

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 07.19.2011

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WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday, Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) softened his call for a two-year delay of the regulatory crackdown on debit card swipe fees. In ...

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Zach Carter

Bair Cries Foul At Bernanke Over Swipe Fees

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 07.12.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve chairman and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation chairwoman insisted Thursday that regulating the fees banks can c...

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In The Public Interest: A Senator Stands Up To A Deceptive TV Ad

Ed Mierzwinski | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ed Mierzwinski

Kudos to U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) for criticizing TV ads running in Montana and around the country which claim that Congressional efforts to rei...

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