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December 9, 2015
Our new web video highlights how right now, Wall Street is using the appropriations process to try to kill a Department of Labor rule supported by President Obama, Senator Booker, Senator Warren, and other leaders in... Read More
December 4, 2015
This week, Better Markets President and CEO Dennis Kelleher wrote in an editorial, titled Don’t Let Wall Street Get Away With Dodd-Frank Reform Rollbacks, outlining how Wall Street and its army... Read More
November 20, 2015
On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 Better Markets Senior Fellow Robert Jenkins delivered the keynote address at the Finance Watches Conference on “Confidence, ethics, and incentives in the financial sector... Read More
November 19, 2015
Working to Lift the Veil of Secrecy from MetLife’s Attack on FSOC: Better Markets Files Court Action
Better Markets has filed a motion to give the public the transparency it deserves in MetLife vs. FSOC, MetLife’s lawsuit challenging the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s (FSOC) designation of the... Read More
November 11, 2015
Protecting the American people from another devastating financial crash and the economic wreckage it causes begins with reflecting honestly about the past and trying to learn the right lessons.
In the late... Read More
October 27, 2015
Financial reform issues are a major concern for voters following the 2008 financial crash and the more than $20 trillion in economic wreckage it caused for families from coast the coast. Although some Presidential... Read More
October 13, 2015
By Frank Medina
Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board Ben Bernanke’s memoire of the financial crisis—The Courage to Act— has hit the bookstores.
Most of the early commentary has centered... Read More
October 5, 2015
Wall Street has been trying to shut down, shut up or smear Better Markets since it was founded five years ago. Wall Street hates anyone willing to stand up to them or who can’t be bought. That’s... Read More
September 23, 2015
Funding for the federal government runs out on September 30th unless a new funding bill is passed by both houses of Congress and signed by the President. This "must pass" legislation is key because it enables very... Read More
August 28, 2015
Reuters' Charles Levinson has written a must-read investigative report on Wall Street's latest scheme to avoid critically important financial reforms: change a few words in their derivatives contracts and... Read More
August 12, 2015
MetLife and its many allies have been attacking the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) for its decision to designate the insurance giant as systemically significant. MetLife sued to overturn FSOC’s... Read More
August 6, 2015
The New York Times’ recent op-ed, We’re Making Life Too Hard for Millennials, highlighted how “[t]he most educated generation in history is on track to becoming less prosperous, at least financially, than... Read More
August 5, 2015
Jon Stewart is known for exposing the absurd. After causing the worst financial crisis since the Great Crash of 1929 and the worst economy since the Great Depression of the 1930s – which cost the United States more... Read More
August 3, 2015
President and CEO Dennis Kelleher's presentation at Brookings event: Are there structural issues in U.S. bond markets?
July 30, 2015
This article first appeared on the Huffington Post here.
As the presidential primaries heat up, many candidates are talking about the threats that Wall Street still poses to hardworking families and the need for stronger... Read More
July 23, 2015
As Better Markets has said, nothing has done more damage in generations to hardworking middle class families, our economy and our government finances than the 2008 financial crash and the more than $20 trillion in economic... Read More
July 22, 2015
Read this article by Dennis Kelleher on The Huffington Post here.
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July 21st, 2015 marks the fifth anniversary of President Obama signing the historic Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ... Read More
July 20, 2015
Download our PowerPoint presentation on the fifth anniversary of the landmark Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law.
July 20, 2015
Come back to bettermarkets.com at 2:30 to watch a live stream of our event marking the fifth anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law.
July 10, 2015
Five years ago, on July 21, 2010, President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law to implement rules of the road on Wall Street and prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis... Read More