Elizabeth Warren

This is why the SEC needs to investigate the GameStop run-up.

You can't look at a racial wealth and income gap that has barely budged since we passed the Civil Rights Act, and think the economy looks just, or that we all have equal opportunity.

What does it profit a man to be able to eat at an integrated lunch counter if he doesn't earn enough money to buy a hamburger and a cup of coffee?

You can't look at decades of growing productivity, with workers getting a smaller and smaller share of the profits they create, and think the economy looks fair.

We've left it to them to shape our entire economy, and make choices about our values and what kind of society we live in.

Canceling $50,000 of student loan debt is the single most effective Executive action available to get our economy going and to make progress toward closing the racial wealth gap

If anything, if we think about fancy schools...debt loads are among the smallest among those graduates from those schools.

We cannot rely on quarterly earnings reports to tell us whether workers deserve a decent living.

We have allowed a system to take root that treats American workers as a commodity, a cost to be minimized--instead of the engine behind all our businesses' success.

Wall Street's 2008 crisis cost the economy tens of trillions of dollars and destroyed 53 percent of Black wealth in the country.

But this zero-sum view of the economy hurts everyone.

If we want a fair and just society, with a growing middle class that everyone has the opportunity to join, we have to stop letting Wall Street run the economy.

Well, as you know, Leader Schumer and I have a plan to cancel $50,000 in student loan debt.

About 43 million Americans now carry $1.5 trillion in student loans. That is more than Americans owe in auto loans or credit card loans, and that burden of debt is stopping people from buying homes or starting businesses.

It is long past time to send a signal to Wall Street that the Bureau is not going to turn the other way and look away when big financial institutions discriminate against Black, Latino, Asian, and Native customers.

I asked the SEC for more information about the dramatic share price swings and whether they represented a 'fair, orderly, and efficient' market function.

No one should be kicked out during a quarantine, particularly if they have been lied to. I really believe that strongly.

The good news is that unlike 2008, we now have an agency that is dedicated to putting consumers first.

Enforcement actions plummeted.

The whole problem of discrimination in financial services exacerbates racial wealth inequalities, and I am glad that you are going to make this a priority.

The Bureau needs to return to its core mission of protecting consumers.

The SEC is not requiring companies to make public disclosure about climate-related risks.

The SEC has been asleep on the job for long enough.

The SEC has the tools to make the markets function better.

I anticipate that you will show the same independence and courage as head of the SEC.