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Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.'

~Eliot Spitzer

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I have voted against only one of President Obama's nominees: Michael Froman, a Citigroup alumnus who is currently storming the halls of Congress as U.S. Trade Representative pushing trade deals that threaten to undermine financial regulation, workers' rights, and environmental protections.

~Elizabeth Warren

Topics: Against Congress Currently Deals Environmental Financial Halls Michael Obama Only President Pushing Regulation Representative Rights Threaten Trade Undermine Voted Who Workers

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Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors.

~Elizabeth Warren

Topics: About American Bankruptcy Death Debtors Financial Great Great American Nation Rebirth Rewritten Story

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I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests.

~Elizabeth Warren

Topics: Bank Better Card Change Credit Credit Card Explain Figure Financial Georgia Get Heard Heartfelt Her How Job Kinds Local Lost Major Out People Physicist Research Stress Terms Tests Thanks Theory Today Trying University Waitress Wants Who

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Some of these biggest financial institutions are out there trading in commodities. They're buying oil tankers. This is not a financial system that has calmed down and is there to serve the American people.

~Elizabeth Warren

Topics: American American People Biggest Buying Commodities Down Financial Financial System Institutions Oil Out People Serve Some System Trading

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Some economists estimate that for every family that goes bankrupt, there are about 15 more who are in the same amount of financial trouble and would profit from bankruptcy but just haven't filed.

~Elizabeth Warren

Topics: About Amount Bankrupt Bankruptcy Economists Estimate Every Family Financial Goes Just More Profit Same Some Trouble Who Would

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If large financial institutions can break the law and accumulate million in profits - and, if they get caught, settle by paying out of those profits - they do not have much incentive to follow the law.

~Elizabeth Warren

Topics: Accumulate Break Caught Financial Follow Get Incentive Institutions Large Law Million Much Out Paying Profits Settle Those

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Families rely on financial services more than ever, but those who need them most - who struggle to make ends meet - too often must contend with sky-high interest rates and tricks and traps buried in the fine print of their loan products.

~Elizabeth Warren

Topics: Buried Contend Ends Ever Families Financial Financial Services Fine Fine Print Interest Interest Rates Loan Make Meet More Most Must Need Often Print Products Rates Rely Services Struggle Than Them Those Too Traps Tricks Who

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I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.

~Elizabeth Warren

Topics: Act Around Business Changed Could Dollars Financial Fundamental How Institutions Like Money See Take Taxpayer Then Think Turn Understand Usual Way World You

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If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.

~Elizabeth Warren

Topics: Been Commission Crisis Current Financial Financial Crisis Had Place Product Safety Would Years Years Ago

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