Financial Justice : the People's Campaign to Stop Lender Abuse.

Financial Justice : the People's Campaign to Stop Lender Abuse.

This provocative and accessible narrative recounts the inside story of how a broad-based people's campaign was mobilized and subsequently succeeded in pushing Congress to create a consumer financial regulator with clout.

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Kirsch, Larry
Other Authors: Mayer, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO, 2013
Subjects:
United States. > Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Consumer protection > United States > Citizen participation.
Consumer protection > United States.
Financial services industry > Law and legislation > United States.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by Congressman Barney Frank
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • How did we ever get into this mess?
  • Elizabeth Warren has a notion
  • The magic moment for reform
  • Activists need leaders, too
  • Coalescing the coalition
  • The battle in the house
  • Wanted : a few votes in the Senate
  • Auto dealers drive for an exemption
  • Preemption : the role of state reformers
  • What did the advocates accomplish and how?
  • Afterword: backward and forward with Elizabeth Warren / by Norman I. Silber
  • Notes
  • Selected bibliography
  • Index.

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