In the ArenaFinancial Regulation
The incredibly boorish grilling of Elizabeth Warren by Republican members of a House subcommittee on Tuesday raises two interesting questions: After a decade in which money lenders raped and pillaged homeowners, home-buyers and …
In the ArenaPakistan
There is all sorts of premature and overripe commentary about Libya bouncing around the internet (and in print, and on tv). There is talk, but no evidence, of a long war. There is talk, but no evidence, of an ill-defined mission. For all we know, the bombardment of Libya could be over by Wednesday, with the allies settling into a n0-fly …
During the George W. Bush years, House Democrats went on a tear about the tendency of Karl Rove’s White House political shop to dispatch federal government employees to appear in the districts of vulnerable Republican members of Congress. Rep. Henry Waxman, then chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee bemoaned …
Both Bloomberg News and the Wall Street Journal are reporting that the White House is considering making Elizabeth Warren the interim head of the newly formed Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection at the Federal Reserve as early as this week. Though details were scarce — would this be a recess appointment (though the Senate just came …
After weeks of dodging the question, White House aides telegraphed today the timing for the announcement of a new head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This is from a gaggle with Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton on board Air Force One as it flew to Texas today, where Obama will grip ‘n grin with rich people for campaign …
The White House and the Treasury Department have spent the last week offering denials of an anonymously sourced Huffington Post report that said Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner opposes nominating Elizabeth Warren to the head the newly-created Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.
On Thursday morning, Geithner himself went even …
Judging from the newspapers these last few days, liberal activists seem to have made some progress in their quest to turn to President Obama’s choice to run the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) into a proxy for whether or not the transform-Washington, candidate-of-hope-and-change is a just talk or the real deal. Obama will …
I wrote this week’s cover story, The New Sheriffs of Wall Street, about SEC Chair Mary Schapiro, FDIC Chair Sheila Bair and COP Chair Elizabeth Warren. An excerpt:
That’s where bailout watchdog Elizabeth Warren finds herself these days. She talked about that and more this morning on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal”:
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