Last week, Wells Fargo bankers traveled from San Francisco to Salt Lake City for their shareholders meeting, but activists weren’t deterred. Continue reading
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April 21, 2013 | News & Notes
Banks are moving their shareholder meetings to escape protesters, but the protesters are following. Last week it was U.S. Bank fleeing to Boise, this week it's Wells Fargo hiding in Salt Lake City.
Updated April 13, 2013 | News & Notes
After facing protests in their home city of Minneapolis, U.S. Bank executives moved their shareholders meeting to Idaho — but the outrage followed. Continue reading
March 22, 2013 | Q&A
Economist Simon Johnson says implementation of the act’s reforms is “painfully slow” and that our financial system remains at risk. Continue reading
February 12, 2013 | BillBoard
Why are Senate Republicans doing everything they can to cripple the already-successful Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? Continue reading
December 18, 2012 | On Democracy
Washington influence peddling isn’t new, but that doesn’t mean the peddlers shouldn’t be called out. Continue reading
December 14, 2012
Take a look at some lawmakers and lobbyists who’ve made the switch from Capitol Hill to K Street, and vice versa, in the recent past. Continue reading
December 7, 2012 | News & Notes
Missed deadlines and Congressional hearings put more speed bumps in the road to implementation for the Volcker Rule.
November 15, 2012
Take a look at what Occupy Wall Street (and other Occupiers) has been up to since the NYPD forced them from Zuccotti Park one year ago.
October 26, 2012
Barofsky describes some unscrupulous practices he found at the Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP, and his efforts to reform the program
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- 4Fight Corruption at Its Roots
- 5Lawrence Lessig on Using Coders to Protect Our Privacy
