By the year 2020, we know that about 65 percent of all jobs are going to require some kind of post-secondary education.
Elizabeth Warren
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Elizabeth Ann Warren is an American attorney, academic, and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Massachusetts since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been a prominent advocate for consumer protection, economic equality, and corporate regulation. Warren gained national recognition for her work in establishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and has focused on issues such as student debt relief and healthcare reform during her tenure in the Senate.
If we stay on our current trend line, we're going to be about 5 million young people short of meeting that goal.
I think your focus on this set of issues has already benefited consumers and helped some small businesses.
We still have not recovered from the failures of the Fed and the other banking agencies to limit systemic risk and protect consumers leading up to the 2008 financial crisis.
So you are making the large trader report available to FERC people in any investigation.
I understand from you that the only reason this has not been done is that you have concerns about working out the details about confidentiality.
I think we already have ample evidence that the Fed needs to place additional restrictions on how banks trade and warehouse physical commodities.
It is time for us to pick workers and consumers and taxpayers over the speculators, over the 'too big to fail' banks.
Market manipulators do not respect jurisdictional boundaries between agencies. In fact, they try to exploit those boundaries and take advantage of gaps in oversight and in data sharing.





