CAMBRIDGE WINTER CENTER
for Financial Institutions Policy
Cambridge Winter Center in the News
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-The Wall Street Journal: “Fannie, Freddie Fix is a Federal Hot Potato”
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-The Wall Street Journal: “GE Sidesteps Harshest Curbs on Finance Arm”
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-The Wall Street Journal: “GE Capital: Financial Bill ‘Supports’ Combo with GE”
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-The Wall Street Journal: “High Rate of Bank Failures Threatens Small Business Lending”
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-The New York Times: “To Protect Consumers, Who Will Be Regulated?”
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-The New York Times: “Anatomy of Consumer Watchdog is in Dispute”
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-The New York Times: “Citing Risks, U.S. Seeks New Rules for Niche Banks”
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-The Washington Post: “Scott Brown’s Key Vote Gives Massachusetts Firms Clout”
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-The Washington Post: “Who Might Win Big or Lose Big in Financial Overhaul?”
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-The Washington Post: “GE and Other Manufacturers Back Exemption in Financial Bill”
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-The Washington Post: “Provision Benefiting Banks to Remain in Financial Overhaul Bill”
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-Los Angeles Times: “Congress to Weigh Regulation of Financing by Auto Dealers”
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-Chicago Tribune: “Proposed Consumer Agency Raises Auto Dealers’ Ire”
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-San Francisco Chronicle: “Business Preps for Battle Over Consumer Czar”
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-San Francisco Chronicle: “Auto Dealers Seek to Avoid Federal Oversight”
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-St. Louis Post Dispatch: “New Rules Aim to Protect Home Buyers”
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-Time: “In Financial Reform, Some Banks Look to Dodge Volcker Rule”
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-Time: “Should Auto Lenders Be Exempt from Consumer Financial Protection?”
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-Time: “Banks and Small Business: The Crunch is Still Ahead”
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-BusinessWeek: “‘Supreme Court” Battle Over Consumer Chief Begins”
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-BusinessWeek: “A Green Light for Car Dealers to Rip Off Buyers?”
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-BusinessWeek: “Senate Clears Way for $30 Billion Small Business Fund”
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-USA Today: “Feds Rethink Policies That Encourage Homeownership”
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-USA Today: “Big Job Looms for New Consumer Protection Agency”
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-USA Today: “Small Banks Say They Can’t Win in Small Business Lending”
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-USA Today: “Obama Warns Wall Street Not to Lapse into Reckless Behavior”
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-USA Today: “Contentious Financial Regulation Battle Heads to Senate”
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-The Hill: “Agencies Plan Spending Spree to Implement Wall Street Reform Bill”
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-The Hill: “Manufacturing Giants Aim to Protect Industrial Banks from Financial Reform”
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-Automotive News: “Political Showdown Brewing Over Dealer Financing Regulation”
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-The Sacramento Bee: “Don’t Turn Blind Eye to Predatory Lenders”
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-The Sacramento Bee: “Evaluating the ‘Veto’ on Consumer Protection”
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-American Banker: “White House Backs into a Corner Letting CFPB Remain Leaderless”
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-American Banker: “Despite Claims, Reform Law Provides Plenty of Exemptions”
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-American Banker: “Will Improvement at GSEs Sap Urgency of Debate?”
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-American Banker: “New Interchange Threat Emerges in Senate”
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-American Banker: “Will GM-Americredit Deal Cost Ally Financial an Ally?”
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-American Banker: “Bank Tax Poised to Return and Take a Bigger Bite”
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-American Banker: “For New Consumer Protection Agency, No Shortage of Challenges”
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-American Banker: “Assessing Winners and Losers in Final Reform Bill”
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-American Banker: “Regulatory Reform Conferees Clip Preemption”
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-American Banker: “Which Provisions are Likely to Stay In Financial Reform”
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-American Banker: “Car Repossession May Be Next Big Consumer Protection Issue”
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-American Banker: “Battle Over Preemption Hinges on Fine Print”
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-American Banker: “Banks, OCC Face Uphill Fight Over Preemption”
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-American Banker: “Lawmakers Dodge Key Issues in Reg Reform”
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-American Banker: “Protection vs. Prudence, More Myth than Reality”
Newspapers & Magazines
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-The Economist, Democracy in America: “Ye Shall Know Them By their Spin”
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-The Economist, Democracy in America: “Weakening the Volcker Rule”
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-The Economist, Democracy in America: “Beating the CFPA the Car Dealer Way”
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-Bloomberg: “Goldman Relied on Citigroup, Lehman to Protect Against AIG Failure”
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-Bloomberg: “Finance Overhaul Bill Would Reshape Wall Street, Washington”
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-Bloomberg: “Banks ‘Dodged a Bullet’ as US Congress Dilutes Trading Rules”
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-Bloomberg: “‘Nervous’ Wall Street Waits for Congress to Kill Swaps Limit”
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-Bloomberg: “Senate Derivatives Bill Faces Battle on Bank Spinoff Provision”
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-Bloomberg: “Naked Swaps Crackdown in Europe Rings Hollow Without U.S.”
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-CNNMoney.com: “Congress Fixes Wall Street -- And Orders Up 68 Studies”
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-CNNMoney.com: “Proposal Would Shield Car Dealers from Consumer Rules”
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-WashingtonPost.com, Wonkbook: “Confused About Fannie and Freddie?”
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-WashingtonPost.com, Ezra Klein: “Explaining FinReg: Fannie and Freddie”
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-WashingtonPost.com, Ezra Klein: “Explaining FinReg: Resolution Authority”
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-WashingtonPost.com, The Company Beat: “A Model for Starting the New CFPB”
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-Reuters: “Folksy Warren is Symbol in Debate Over Wall Street”
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-Reuters: “Obama Running Out of Options to Aid Housing Market”
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-Time.com: “Fannie, Freddie and Ending the 30-Year Mortgage”
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-Center for Public Integrity: “Auto Dealers Maneuver for Exemption”
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-CBS Moneywatch, Jane Bryant Quinn: “Buyer Beware, if Auto Dealers Exempted”
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-The Baseline Scenario: “Sam Brownback’s Staff are Amateurs”
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-The American Prospect: “You’re Going to Freak Out About GSE Reform”
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-The American Prospect: “Brownback Takes on the Pentagon for the Car Dealers”
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-Rortybomb: “The Volcker Rule and the Saga of State Street Bank”
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-The Huffington Post: “Banks Fought for Very Thing They Are Now Trying to Kill”
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-The Huffington Post: “Geithner Stresses Need for ‘Clear Rules’ for Wall Street”
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-The Huffington Post: “Brownback Defends Predatory Lenders in Misleading Letter”
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-Fortune.com, Street Sweep: “Too Big to Fail Survives Again”
Online
Hearings & Conferences
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-Fox Business News: “Should Government be More Involved in Mortgage?”
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-Fox Business News: “Winners and Losers in Financial Reform”
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-Fox Business News: “Bank Tax Demise”
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-NPR, All Things Considered: “Post-Mortgage Meltdown, Where Do We Go Now?”
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-NPR, Morning Edition: “Car Dealers May Escape Scrutiny of Consumer Loans”
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-NPR, Morning Edition: “Consumer Protection Agency Contentious Issue”
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-NPR, Morning Edition: “GOP Fails in Bid to End Support for Fannie, Freddie”
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-NPR, Morning Edition: “Bill Exempts Auto Dealers From Agency Oversight”
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-BNN, Headline: “The Future for Fannie & Freddie -- Parts 1 and 2”
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-BNN, Headline: “Banking and Financial Reform -- Parts 1 and 2”
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-BNN, Headline: “Selling Financial Reform to Main Street and Wall Street”
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-BNN, Headline: “Buffett Testifies on Rating Agencies -- Parts 1 and 2”
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-KPFA, Letters to Washington: “Consumer Financial Protection”
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-ABC Radio National, Saturday Extra: “Auto Finance and the U.S. Economy”
Broadcast Media
