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To help Americans for Financial Reform kick off of the National Senate Call-In Week that ends tomorrow, March 4th, Ron Howard created the below skit that reunites all the actors who portrayed "Presidents" on "Saturday Night Live" including Will Ferrell...
Join the National Call-In Week and Call Your Senator Today!The process is easy and the message is clear: Congress must rein in the reckless greedy behavior of Wall Street and create an independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency! More than a...
For all too long, the credit industry has had its tentacles firmly clasped upon consumers in all age brackets and income levels. Designed to lift those tentacles one by one, the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure (CARD) Act of...
Identity theft has many damaging effects, and one of the most problematic for consumers is the reporting of false or fraudulent information on their credit reports.  One would logically assume that US banks would be legally accountable to consumers for...
Existing laws and policies don't seem to be enough for lenders here in Florida when it comes to foreclosures. Claiming that finalizing foreclosures are both "time-consuming and expensive" they're looking to speed up the process.   If members of the Florida...
Harvard Law Professor and Chairman of the TARP Oversight Committee, Elizabeth Warren made another appearance on The Daily Show last night. When sharing her knowledgeable viewpoint on CEO's, banks and people in power she declared, "They get it. And they...
I hear story after story from homeowners who feel that their pleas for help fall on deaf ears. Many have filed complaints with their State Attorney General's office, various federal and state agencies, and of course their mortgage servicing company...
Minutes ago the House of Representatives voted to pass HR 4173, the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009.  The vote was 223 to 202, with 27 Democrats voting against and no Republicans voting for the legislation.   It...
As bankers gathered in Chicago this week, thousands of consumers from across the country showed up in Chicago too. Protesters are calling on these banks who received billions in our taxpayer bailout money to help consumers who have fallen...
There's a lot of talk lately over banking policies, rising fees and interest rates. The House Financial Services Committee is holding hearings and reviewing a number of proposed bills that involve further controlling the credit card industry.  Everything is on...
A memoir exposing the steep price consumers pay when facing mortgage servicing errors, inaccurate credit reporting, illegal debt collection practices, identity theft and weak consumer protection laws. THE BOOK » DENISE'S STORY »