Commentary: Fighting the banks, protecting the consumerAL LEWIS
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/warren-tells-the-controversial-truth-2011-04-22?link=MW_home_latest_news Certain members of Congress keep trying to kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau before it is born, but so far they’re losing to a former Sunday school teacher.
“I am not going down on this agency without a fight,” Elizabeth Warren said earlier this month at a Society of American Business Writers and Editors meeting in Dallas. “It is a fight worth having.”
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“I wish I could say that this was a story of people who went to the mall and bought too many Game Boys,” she told me at the time. “A broken health-care system is bankrupting middle-class America — and neither the insurance companies, nor the credit industry, nor Congress wants to admit that.”
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She endures in her stand against the hollowing out of the middle class at a time when few others dare to acknowledge the cause.