Politics
Elizabeth Warren Calls on JP Morgan Chief to Resign
Share BOSTON, MA – In the wake of $2 billion in losses at JP Morgan Chase due to risky trading, Elizabeth Warren, the architect of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, today called on Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan’s C...
Why We Regulate
Share One of the characters in the classic 1939 film “Stagecoach” is a banker named Gatewood who lectures his captive audience on the evils of big government, especially bank regulation — “As if we bankers don’t know ...
FCC Urged to Revoke Fox Broadcast Licenses
Share A Washington-based ethics watchdog is calling on federal regulators to revoke News Corporation’s 27 Fox broadcast licences in the wake of the highly critical report on phone hacking from the UK parliament. Citizens for ...
Romney says Obama “Is Focused On Taking Away From Those That Have the Least”
Share At a campaign stop today in Portsmouth, NH, Mitt Romney portrayed President Obama as a foe — and himself a champion — of the poor, noting the “greater and greater gap between those that have the most and those that ...
Mozilla Slams CISPA, Breaking Silicon Valley’s Silence On Cybersecurity Bill
Share While the Internet has been bristling with anger over the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, the Internet industry has been either silent or quietly supportive of the controversial bill. With one exception....
Romney’s Openly-Gay Spokesperson Resigns After Facing Pressure From Anti-Gay Right Wing
Share Richard Grenell, the openly-gay conservative foreign policy spokesperson hired by Mitt Romney, has resigned from the campaign following right-wing pressure, the Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin reports. “[M]y abilit...
