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U.S. senator urges exchanges to require one-share-one-vote system
ReutersJune 5 (Reuters) - A U.S. senator has asked exchange operators NYSE Euronext and Nasdaq OMX Group to consider proposing rules that would require the companies that list their shares with them to have "one share, one vote" corporate structures. Some...Tags: Voting, Politics, Stock Market, NYSE Euronext, Inc., Career and Workplace
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Elizabeth Warren to pen new book -- a middle-class call to arms?
A book can’t rescue the American middle class. But a lot of politicians who say they want to rescue the American middle class are writing books about their travails and their vision — all timed to come out as the 2016 presidential election...
Tags: Political Fundraising, Ed Warren, Politics, U.S. Senate, Authors
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Why the medical device tax needs to stay
The chief drawback of a law as complex as the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance reform measure passed in 2010, is that it provides self-interested opponents a multitude of places to stick a wedge in and hammer away. But you'd be hard-pressed...Tags: Employment, Health Insurance, Politics, Dwayne Johnson, Medical Research
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Goldman Sachs wins even when muzzled by the feds
Almost three years ago, when Goldman Sachs Group Inc. paid $550 million to settle fraud accusations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, one of the claims was that Goldman misled the bond-insurer ACA Financial Guaranty Corp. in a horribly complex...Tags: Mary Jo White, Prosecution, Politics, Defendants, Crime, Law and Justice
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Letters: Sen. Warren speaks up
Re "Warren upends bankers, tradition," May 11 As the newest member of the Senate Banking Committee, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is a breath of fresh air. Finally, there's a voice in Washington for the people and a staunch advocate for consumers....Tags: Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
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Sen. Warren goads Fed, SEC, DOJ to explain no-fault bank deals
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, having chastised bank regulators for failing to put Wall Street giants on trial, is demanding to see any analyses that the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Reserve and the Securities and Exchange Commission have conducted...Tags: Mary Jo White, Politics, Conservation, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Prisons
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Freshman senator with senior pluck takes on the financial industry
WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the newest member of the Senate Banking Committee, waited patiently for her first chance to question top financial regulators at a recent hearing on Capitol Hill. When her turn finally came after 90 minutes,...
Tags: Banking, Politics, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), $700 Billion Bank Bailout (2008), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants student loans to get Fed discount rate
WASHINGTON -- Students taking out government loans to help pay for college should pay the same rock-bottom interest rate that the Federal Reserve charges big banks, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) proposed Wednesday. With the interest rate on federal...
Tags: Loans, Consumers, Economy, Business and Finance, Occupy Wall Street, Finance
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Higher Minimum Is No Threat To Businesses, Jobs
The Hartford CourantAlthough decades of research indicate that raising the minimum wage does not adversely affect employment, this untrue claim is recycled whenever the Connecticut General Assembly considers providing working people with a small wage increase. Businesses...Tags: Business, Politics, Layoffs and Downsizing, Restaurants, U.S. Senate
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Obama nominates Rep. Mel Watt to head Housing Finance Agency
WASHINGTON — President Obama nominated Democratic Rep. Mel Watt to be the top regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, moving to replace a career bureaucrat who has been sharply criticized by liberals for not doing more to help troubled homeowners....
Tags: Kamala D. Harris, Politics, Republican Party, Financial and Business Services, Fannie Mae
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Obama to nominate Democratic Rep. Mel Watt to head housing agency
WASHINGTON -- President Obama will nominate Democratic Rep. Mel Watt to head the federal housing agency that oversees taxpayer-owned Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a White House official said Wednesday. Watt, an 11-term congressman from North Carolina,...
Tags: Kamala D. Harris, Politics, U.S. Senate, Fannie Mae, Elections
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Massachusetts Senate race pits Democrat Markey vs. Republican Gomez
This post has been updated, as indicated below.WASHINGTON – The race to replace John F. Kerry in the U.S. Senate will offer Massachusetts voters a familiar choice: a longtime Democratic officeholder against a fresh-faced Republican. Democratic Rep. Edward J. Markey and Republican businessman...Tags: Politics, Republican Party, U.S. Senate, Primaries, Stephen F. Lynch
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