Dodd-Frank Rollback Bill Could Result in Financial Disaster … AGAIN!

Today, at the only scheduled committee hearing to review Chairman Hensarling’s Wrong Choice Act 2.0, a bill that would destroy the most important parts of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Ranking Member of the

‘Spectacular Betrayal’ as Trump Hands Economy ‘Back Over to Wall Street’

‘The Wall Street bankers against whom Trump ran are making policy now,’ says Public Citizen — by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer at Common Dreams President Donald Trump is handing the U.S. economy “back over to Wall Street” on Friday, with a regulatory

The Republican Speaker of the House on the Fiduciary Rule

The Department of Labor Fiduciary Rule is a Rule, created by the Obama DOL, that is scheduled to be phased in April 10, 2017 – Jan. 1, 2018. In simple terms, it expands the “investment advice fiduciary” definition under the Employee Retirement Income Security

CFPB Offers Info on Military Community Student Loans

From a January 30 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau release:  Here are some reminders of your rights, protections, and resources as a student loan borrower and member of the military community: The CFPB has created an action guide detailing options for service members

In His First Hour—His First Gut Punch to the Middle Class

“Today’s action is all the proof we need to know whose side the Trump administration is on” — by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer at CommonDreams About an hour after President Donald Trump was sworn in on Friday, his administration suspended indefinitely a scheduled

This Week’s Democratic Campaigns and GOP Agitprop

Joe Biden will Not Run for President Swipe Right for Hillary Bernie Sanders Explains Social Security O’Malley on the Need for New Leadership   Clinton vs. Sanders vs. O’Malley On Fixing Banking How do we fix Wall Street, a.k.a. “the banks”? How

GOP Budget Slashes Tax Rates for the 1 Percent, Safety Net for Everyone Else

Proposal, columnist writes, ‘is based on an economic philosophy that has failed the country and its people savagely in the past and inevitably will do so again.’ by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer U.S. Congressman Tom Price, House Budget Committee chairman and lead

Learning Deficit? — GOP: “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt”

Gee, I’ll bet you thought that when Romney lost the election, his philosophies died along with the end of that race. You might also have hoped that the GOP might have learned that a clear majority of Americans didn’t care for their

Victims Of Foreclosure Fraud Can’t Cash Reimbursement Checks

— by Sarah Edelman, Guest Blogger on Apr 17, 2013 at 3:48 pm Could federal regulators and their cast of private contractors possibly do a worse job of getting relief to families who were wronged during the foreclosure crisis? First, private contractors