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The Fiscal Times, April 17, 2015. All Rights Reserved. “Rules are not the enemy of markets,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren told me yesterday, on the heels of her major address on the unfinished business of financial reform at the Levy Institute’s Hyman Minsky Conference. “Rules promote innovation and competition. Rules prevent markets from blowing up. We learned that […]

Financial Times, April 17, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Elizabeth Warren may not be running for president but she does not relent in gunning for Wall Street. On Wednesday she gave a speech arguing powerfully that the task of taming finance is far from finished. It is an important speech that deserves to be widely read. The […]

NewsMax, April 16, 2015. All Rights Reserved. On the first day of the Levy Institute’s two-day annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference, held at the National Press Club in Washington, high-powered speakers held forth on the most prominent issues in the financial world that will affect the economy as Congress begins to try to legislate during […]

Business Insider Australia, April 16, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Elizabeth Warren made a speech at the Levy Institute’s Minsky Conference on Wednesday and laid out some major financial reforms she wants to push through. “The culture of cheating on Wall Street didn’t stop with the 2008 crash,” the populist Massachusetts Senator said. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/elizabeth-warren-new-reforms-2015-4  

MPA Magazine, April 16, 2015. All Rights Reserved. U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has called on lawmakers to break up too-big-to-fail by capping the size of the largest financial institutions and separating commercial and investment banking. She also proposed limiting emergency lending by the Federal Reserve to troubled institutions by the Federal Reserve. Speaking at the […]

The Nation, April 16, 2015. All Rights Reserved. If Elizabeth Warren ran for president, a key part of her campaign—if not the centerpiece—would likely involve how to restructure the financial sector in a less dangerous and more productive way. Dodd-Frank was by many accounts a good start, but it’s clear the economy is still over-financialized […]

Reuters, April 16, 2015. All Rights Reserved. The European Central Bank’s monetary policy will be accommodative in the foreseeable future, the bank’s Vice President Vitor Constancio said on Thursday. “… Monetary policy needs to be accommodative, as I expect to be the case for the foreseeable future in the euro area,” Constancio told a seminar […]

The Wall Street Journal, April 16, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Vitor Constancio, vice president of the European Central Bank, said Thursday that economic recovery in Europe remains “gradual and moderate,” underscoring the need for loose monetary policy in the eurozone for the foreseeable future. “Monetary policy has to remain accommodative with low interest rates,” Mr. […]