Elizabeth Warren Throws Down Gauntlet, Calls for Genuine Financial Reform

From Naked Capitalism:

At the Levy Conference, Elizabeth Warren launched a new campaign for tough-minded, effective financial regulation. This ought to be a straightforward call for restoring banking to its traditional role of facilitating real economy activity. Instead, in this era of “cream for the banks, crumbs for everyone else,” common-sense reforms to make banks deal fairly with customers and remove their outsized subsidies will no doubt be depicted by pampered financiers as an unfair plot to target a successful industry. But as we’ve stressed, Big Finance gets more government support than any line of business, even military contractors. They are utilities and should be regulated as such. Thus even Warren’s bold call to action falls short of the degree to which the financial service industry need to be curbed.
Below is the video of her speech; I’ve also embedded the text at the end of the post.


http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/04/elizabeth-warren-throws-down-gauntlet-calls-for-genuine-financial-reform.html