Glass Steagall Letter of Support
United States House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 December 7, 2009 Re: Support the Hinchey-Inslee-Conyers-DeFazio-Tierney Amendment to restore Glass-Steagall Protections Dear Member, The...
View ArticleAFR to Senator Dodd: Support Strong Reforms
February 1, 2010 The Honorable Christopher Dodd Chairman Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs 534 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Senator Dodd: We are...
View ArticleSupport Cantwell-McCain #3884 Which Restores the Glass-Steagall Act’s Key...
Senator United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Re: Support Cantwell McCain #3884 which restores the Glass-Steagall Act’s key safeguards Dear Senator, The over 200 consumer, employee, investor,...
View ArticleAFR in the News: Does More Need to be Done About ‘Too Big To Fail?’
AFR’s Marcus Stanley was interviewed by Peter Barnes of Fox Business News on March 11.
View ArticleNearly 600,000 Americans Ask Senators to Support “21st Century Glass-Steagall...
"At the Capitol this afternoon [July 9], Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) received petitions in which nearly 600,000 Americans call for action on the 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act. This bipartisan...
View ArticleAFR in the News: 5 questions for Hillary Clinton on Wall Street (CNN)
"'A candidate could both support legislative change and tie commitments to that to how they're thinking about appointments,' said Lisa Donner, executive director of Americans for Financial Reform....
View ArticleAFR Statement: The Case for the “21st Century Glass Steagall Act” Is Stronger...
Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), John McCain (R-Ariz.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), and Angus King (I.-Me.) have reintroduced their “21st Century Glass-Steagall Act,” which would restore the historic...
View ArticleAFR in the News: Should We Break Up the Big Banks? (MSNBC)
"I think you need an all-of-the-above approach: you use the law that bears Barney Frank’s name, which requires the breakup of any bank that is too big to fail without harming the economy; you pass new...
View ArticleAFR in the News: Sanders wants Clinton to break up big banks. Will she? (CNN...
"[A]lexis Goldstein, a senior analyst at Americans for Financial Reform, thinks banks might be too complacent. She notes that a recent poll shows that 75% of Americans think banks need to tougher laws....
View ArticleAFR in the News: There Are Real Reasons to Bring Back Glass-Steagall...
AFR's Marcus Stanley writes: "The 2008 crisis was catastrophic for the global economy not simply because nonbank financial institutions failed, but because the problems in nonbanks spread throughout...
View ArticleJoint Statement: Advocates deliver 350,000+ petition signatures calling for...
"Advocates from Take on Wall Street, an alliance of labor, consumer, community, religious, and netroots organizations, were on Capitol Hill this morning, telling key Congressional leaders to support a...
View ArticleAFR Statement: AFR Applauds Bipartisan Bill to Restore Glass-Steagall
"The Warren-McCain bill would restore the Glass-Steagall firewall and update it for the 21st century by fully addressing new developments like the massive growth in the market for complex derivatives...
View ArticleTake Action: It’s Past Time for Congress to Break up the Banks
The banks that caused the 2008 financial crisis with their greed and recklessness are even bigger now than they were ten years ago. Separating risky investment banking and “boring” commercial banking...
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