By Linda Anselmi on Aug 27, 2010 in Barney Frank, Christopher Dodd, Elizabeth Warren | View Comments
Last month President Obama signed into law the Financial Regulatory Reform bill that left us Surrendering to the Worst. But one of the very few positives of that bill was the formation of a consumer financial protection bureau to oversee some of the worst lending practices that contributed to the housing bubble and collapse. The consumer protection bureau [...]
By Larry Doyle on Jul 17, 2010 in Economy, Economy-Federal Agencies, Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Treasury | View Comments
Truth, transparency, and integrity! If our nation is to have any chance to recover from the throes of the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, it had better start elevating and embracing these aforementioned virtues. Time and time again, when we review business practices and political decisions at the center of our crisis, we have [...]
By Larry Doyle on Feb 12, 2010 in Bank Stress Test, Banks, Economy, Economy-Federal Agencies, Elizabeth Warren, Sense on Cents (Larry Doyle blog), U.S. Treasury | View Comments
The initial Bank Stress Tests run by Treasury Secretary Geithner were largely a sham. I questioned as much last April in writing, “Bank Stress Tests: Major Sham?”: As with any test, the results are only meaningful if the process and proctor have unquestioned integrity. The proctors for the Bank Stress Test are none other than [...]
By Larry Doyle on Feb 9, 2010 in Banking Institutions, Banks, Economy, Elizabeth Warren, Sense on Cents (Larry Doyle blog), Wall Street | View Comments
How is it that some people are able to aggressively promote the virtues of truth, transparency, and integrity within our financial system while others would seem to talk a good game but do not truly walk the walk? The key, in my mind, is that the former are not beholden to a constituency focused on [...]
By Linda Anselmi on Apr 17, 2009 in Current Affairs, Elizabeth Warren | View Comments
Elizabeth Warren, chair of the congressional oversight panel tasked with overseeing the spending of TARP funds, concluded her recent interview on Morning Joe (video below) with this statement, “if we don’t keep the American people as part of the conversation, the decisions that will get made, will not be the decisions that are best for [...]
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