Voters in crucial battleground districts across the country are hungry to take on the plutocracy. That’s the key takeaway from a new survey undertaken by Lake Research Partners, who find voters on all parts of the political spectrum demonstrate an “overwhelming, broad-based, and intense support for curbing big banks’ influence in Washington, and holding financial companies accountable for discrimination. ” The survey is one of many pieces of mounting evidence that the ele...
Wall Street
GOP lawmaker pledges to derail Senate Dodd-Frank bill with wish list of poison pills
Wall Street finally peeled off enough Senate Democrats to get major rollbacks of financial regulation one step closer to becoming law on Wednesday, when the Senate passed a bill to exempt dozens of banks from the Dodd-Frank reform law. But now it seems one key House Republican who’s pushed the industry’s wish list for years might, bizarrely, end up standing in the way.
Rep. Jeb Hensarling (TX), a longtime advocate for the most radical category of deregulatory policies po...
