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  • Money & Politics
    Dark Money Group Attacks Consumers
    April 28, 2016
    | Libby Watson
    Nearly five years since it officially opened, a new dark money group is taking aim at the agency tasked to protect consumers — and no one has any idea who's behind it.
  • Democracy & Government
    What Clinton Gets Right, And Wrong, About Wall Street Reform
    December 9, 2015
    | Isaiah J. Poole
    The progressives that Clinton is clearly trying to win over need to keep pressing for bolder reforms.
  • Bank Reform Five Years Later: Still Incomplete
    July 21, 2015
    | Robert Borosage
    This week marks the fifth anniversary of Dodd-Frank, the complicated legislation designed to reform Wall Street after the financial crisis. Five years later, the debate still rages.
  • The Joys of Abolishing Debt
    September 18, 2014
    | Astra Taylor
    Disgusted by the practices of debt collectors, Rolling Jubilee, an Occupy offshoot, just got rid of $4 million of school loans for thousands of students.
  • Economy & Work
    Elizabeth Warren and Paul Krugman on the Middle Class
    September 3, 2014 | Updated September 8, 2014
    Video from the sold-out event last week at CUNY in New York, featuring the Massachusetts senator and the Nobel-prize winning economist, is now online.
  • Economy & Work
    America's 10 Most Hated Banks
    July 30, 2014
    | Erika Eichelberger
    According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, these financial institutions draw the most complaints.
  • Economy & Work
    Car Loans: The Next Subprime Crisis?
    July 24, 2014
    | Erika Eichelberger
    Republicans got their way and car dealers were exempted from Consumer Financial Protection Bureau oversight. A new investigation finds that giant loans are going to poor people with bad credit.
  • Democracy & Government
    Ten Things Elizabeth Warren's CPA Has Done for You
    March 15, 2014
    | Erika Eichelberger
    The watchdog agency has issued dozens of protections shielding consumers from shady practices by mortgage lenders, student loan servicers and credit card companies.
  • Replace Payday Lenders With the Post Office?
    February 4, 2014
    | Alan Pyke
    Sen. Elizabeth Warren has endorsed a proposal for the postal service to offer basic financial services, which could save the poor billions and fill its own budget hole.
  • The Scholars Who Shill for Wall Street
    October 27, 2013
    | Lee Fang
    Academics get paid by financial firms to testify against Dodd-Frank regulations. What’s wrong with this picture?


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