- Poll: Americans Unimpressed With GOP in Debt Talks
- The GOP Has Double Amnesia--"As Republicans obstruct Obama on a debt deal, they seem to have forgotten they and Bush ran up huge deficits, and that they helped spur a crisis by not properly regulating big business and financial markets."
- How the GOP is winning the debt ceiling fight Salon
- Tea Party Zombies Push Republican Party into Boston Harbor
- Roots of the Republican Anti-Government Reflex and the Debt Ceiling Crisis
- Letting Bankers Walk--"Ever since the current economic crisis began, it has seemed that five words sum up the central principle of United States financial policy: go easy on the bankers." NYT
- Rolling Back the Progressive Era: How Bankers are using the Debt Crisis to welcome in the Financial Road to Serfdom
- How Darrell Issa's Investigation Into Financial Crisis Commission Backfired On GOP
- Financial Crisis Commissioners Leaked Information to Lobbyists--"House Democrats on Wednesday accused two Republicans who served on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission of leaking sensitive material during the course of the group’s yearlong probe."
- Obama bypassing Warren for consumer bureau, officials say--Maybe she can be drafted to run for Senate.
- Congressman Who Harassed Elizabeth Warren Showered With Donations From Banks And Predatory Lenders
- As a Watchdog Starves, Wall Street Is Tossed a Bone--The The House Appropriations Committee is "starving the agency responsible for bringing financil wrongdoers to justice — while putting over $200 million that could otherwise have been spent on investigations and enforcement actions back into the pockets of Wall Street." NYT
- Senate Votes Against Delay of Debit Fee Limits--Helping the merchants. NYT
- Banks' check-clearing policies could leave you with overdrafts---"Banks are forcing some of us to overdraw more often by clearing the largest transactions first, instead of processing them in the order they come in."
- Citi Credit Card Hack Bigger Than Originally Disclosed--"Citigroup has been forced to reveal that a recent hack of its network exposed the financial data of more than 360,000 customers, a much higher number than the bank originally disclosed."
- Jailed for cashing Chase check at Chase bank--After getting so much bad press, they had to apologize for having him thrown in jail.
- Whoops! Chase repos wrong car--"Chase’s special collections manager told me the reason the company took the car was because the previous owner did not complete his payments."
- How Banks Plan To Compete With Groupon--By selling your purchase history.
- Pensioner faces '£500,000 bill' to challenge bank
- Florida Foreclosure Fraud Investigators Allege Attorney General Fired Them For Aggressively Pursuing Banks
- Former Taylor Bean & Whitaker CEO indicted for massive fraud
- Elizabeth Warren: Mortgage Forms Should Be Comprehensible To Normal Human Beings--She would have been looking out for you.
- 'The Shady Ways People Are Losing Their Homes--Even If They Don't Have Mortgages
- Supreme Court Justice Schack hits HSBC for 'frivolous motion' in foreclosure, asks boss to explain
- Florida Kangaroo Foreclosure Courts Likely to Fold
- Man falls behind on payments, mortgage company has home trashed
- Neighbors Are Mad At Guy Who Got $300K House For $16
- Milwaukee homeowner paying on time, yet facing eviction
- Where's relief for homeowners who played by rules?
