WASHINGTON -- Just one day after Treasury Secretary Jack Lew wrote a letter urging lawmakers to reject a slate of Wall Street deregulation measures, n...

WASHINGTON -- The recent Wall Street deregulation push in Congress has been fueled by a significant disparity in campaign donations from big banks: Me...

WASHINGTON -- A House Committee approved six new bills to deregulate Wall Street derivatives on Wednesday, advancing legislation that would expand tax...

The goal of a safer, sounder financial system, one that is less prone to crisis and failure and eliminates or dramatically reduces the need for taxpayer bailouts, is achievable. This is what the American people voted for last November. This is the president's clear mandate.

When in office, Wilson carried out a policy blend of trust-busting and regulation and signed the Clayton Act (1914) strengthening anti-trust law. But what does all of this have to do with today?

A working market needs rules, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is starting to level the playing field. That's a good thing for consumers -- and it didn't come a moment too soon.

Republicans believe that government spending causes unemployment. But we can't cut the defense budget, because that would put people out of work.

WASHINGTON — Message from liberals to President Barack Obama: Your economic message is muddled, go after Wall Street harder. With the November ...

The reason why the government stands behind the banks and insures them is because they are integral to our communities' growth and progress. If the banks turn their back on those communities, they have gotten away from their core purpose and do us all a grave disservice.

Team Obama Re-Elect has been having a difficult time courting big Wall Street donors this election cycle, mainly because President Barack Obama has, at times, intimated that the wreck of the global economy may have had something to do with some sort of widespread misrule among members of the financial industry. Meanwhile, corporate America has been posting record profits, the the Dow Jones Industrial Average is (perhaps ominously) back to its pre-recession levels, and, of course, no one has actually been punished for that time the global economy nearly died in a ditch. But gads! The whining! It remains. So what's Obama to do?

Mark Twain supposedly said that history does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme. I devoutly wish Obama administration policies would rhyme more with the New Deal, and rely less on the free verse of "nudging" the nation towards a broadly-shared prosperity.

We're mad at the devastation wrought in the last four years by the toxic combination of unrestrained greed and concentrated wealth. I propose five new rules that will restore democracy to the nation.