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Wells Fargo Offers 1.4 Million More Reasons to Protect Arbitration Rule
The newest revelation in the Wells Fargo fake account scandal underscores the importance of the CFPB’s arbitration rule.
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Chicago Tribune Columnist: Sinclair Merger “Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test”
Tribune columnist Robert Reed says the “big corporate deal” could hurt “customers, employees and suppliers” in markets across the country.
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New Ad Alert: Chamber’s Anti-CFPB Ad All Froth, No Fact on Forced Arbitration Rule
In new ad, Chamber of Commerce uses Wall Street talking points and outright falsehoods to attack CFPB’s important forced arbitration rule
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ICYMI: Goldman Sachs Alums in Trump Admin Aim to Deliver for Former Employer
At the top of Goldman’s wish list is gutting the Volcker Rule that curtails risky behavior at investment banks.
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ICYMI: Debunking Wall Street’s Arbitration Myths
In a New York Times op-ed, CFPB Director Richard Cordray explains how big banks win and consumers lose if the Consumer Bureau’s new arbitration is repealed by Congress.
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NEW REPORT: How Sinclair’s Partisan Political Agenda Threatens America’s Local News
Allied Progress released a new report detailing Sinclair Broadcast Group’s partisan political agenda and troubling track record with the truth.
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ICYMI: Is a Bannon-Sinclair Partnership on the Horizon?
Sources say a Breitbart-Sinclair partnership could help Bannon settle scores with his enemies within Trump’s inner circle and build a platform that could challenge Fox News from the right.
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Group Launches Investigation into Trump DOJ’s Giveaway to Financial Scammers
Allied Progress launches investigation into Trump administration decision to end the successful Obama-era program Operation Choke Point.
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Consumer Affairs: Feds End Consumer Measure That Earned Wrath of Payday Lenders, Republicans and Sex Industry
A letter obtained by Allied Progress, a consumer group that had supported the initiative, reveals that the Department of Justice is ceding to demands to end Operation Choke Point.
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Politico: Justice Department to end Obama-era ‘Operation Choke Point’
Karl Frisch, executive director of Allied Progress, blasted the letter as “a massive giveaway to predatory payday lenders and other shady financial scam-artists.