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Esquire, April 16, 2015. All Rights Reserved. It’s been an interesting week for Senator Professor Elizabeth Warren. First, in Time Magazine’s annual 100 Groovy Folks list, she gets a rapturous shout-out from none other than Hillary Rodham Clinton, currently touring the silos of Iowa and the clam shacks of New Hampshire…. Read more: http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a34418/a-visit-from-senator-professor-warren/

American Banker, April 15, 2015. All Rights Reserved. WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., delivered a sweeping speech Wednesday aimed at what she’s calling "the unfinished business of financial reform." Warren laid out a number of broad policy goals for the banking industry, arguing that while the Dodd-Frank Act "made some real progress," more needs […]

Vox, April 15, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Elizabeth Warren isn’t running for president. But she does have an agenda for reining in the big banks that would go well beyond the Obama administration’s (underrated) bank regulation moves and substantially alter the role of Wall Street in American life. In a speech delivered on April 15 […]

US News & World Report, April 15, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., called Wednesday for breaking up big banks through structural reforms that would bring a decisive end to “too big to fail.” Warren told a Levy Economics Institute conference she has worked with other lawmakers to advance a bill that would […]

Financial Times, April 15, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Elizabeth Warren, the anti-Wall Street senator, has lashed out at US regulators for being soft on misbehaving banks, describing settlements that extracted billion dollar fines as a “slap on the wrist” and demanding that banks be put on trial. The remarks by Ms Warren, who has emerged […]

Financial Times, April 15, 2015. All Rights Reserved. US growth is set to remain relatively "robust" and low inflation is due largely to temporary factors, St Louis Federal Reserve president James Bullard said in a speech on Wednesday morning in Washington DC.  He renewed his recent calls for higher interest rates, in part because of […]

The Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2015. All Rights Reserved. WASHINGTON—The No. 2 official at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said banks should get “regulatory relief” if they meet minimum capital requirements and other criteria, weighing in as Congress considers measures to ease rules on smaller banks. FDIC Vice Chairman Thomas Hoenig, who favors breaking […]