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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.

Jun 23, 2009

If we get that right, the need for the States to write additional regulations, in my view, becomes much less.

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Jun 23, 2009

This creates a floor, and it creates a floor.

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Jun 23, 2009

What I have suggested is an agency that offers plain vanilla products that provide a safe harbor on regulation.

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Jun 23, 2009

There was no reason to develop a business model that put tricks and traps in back and you pretended to compete on things that were not real.

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Jun 23, 2009

What I really think is that it is time to talk about disclosure in a way that means something.

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Jun 23, 2009

regulation must shift in the financial services area from who issued it to what the product is.

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Jun 23, 2009

Congressman, I can't understand this without seeing what the paperwork is that accompanies them and what the disclosure is that is given to the consumer.

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Jun 23, 2009

We are trying to say that more legal mandates of ineffective disclosure is not helping the consumer.

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Jun 23, 2009

If one offered a very gentle stress test and the consequence were that the stock market responded positively to the good news that emerged from that, surely you wouldn't say that that changed any underlying reality.

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Jun 23, 2009

In order to be more transparent, in order to have greater accountability for these banks, why not run the stress tests again under more difficult circumstances?

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