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Predatory Payday Loan Industry Showers GOP Lawmakers With Cash as CFPB Ruling Looms

A new Accountable.US report found that nearly 60% of House members requested more time to file their annual financial disclosures this year.

Liz Zelnick is the director of the Economic Security & Corporate Power Program at Accountable.US, where she oversees the organization’s work on economic issues, exposing special interests who work against consumers and everyday Americans. Liz has spent the last 13 years in progressive movements and government. In her previous role, Liz served as the deputy director of policy and legislative affairs for the Massachusetts State Treasurer, where she developed policy priorities related to public i...

    MS. PSAKI:  Joining us today is Bharat Ramamurti, the Deputy Director of the National Economic Council for Financial Reform and Consumer Protection.    Bharat was formerly the Managing Director of the Corporate Power Program at the Roosevelt Institute.  He also served on the Congressional Oversight Commission for the CARES Act, a position he was appointed to by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer last year.  Previously, Bharat was the top economic adviser to Senator Elizabeth Warren...

Reinvigorating antitrust law for real trust-busting; and Rebalancing political power through institutional reform. Bharat Ramamurti, a coauthor of the True New Deal, joined Hanauer to discuss the big ideas behind the plan.  Ramamurti isnt some dilettante in the world of economics: Hes served as an economic advisor to Senator Elizabeth Warren, and he recently left his position as the managing director of the Roosevelt Institutes Corporate Power Program to serve as the deputy director of the inc...

Two weeks ago, I don’t think anybody would have guessed that one of the last major conflicts holding up a deal over coronavirus aid would have somehow centered on a handful of emergency lending programs that have barely been used since the Federal Reserve christened them this year. Yet here weare. Republicans, led by Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, have launched a last-minute bid to permanently shut down some of the credit facilities that the central bank launched this spring in response to ...