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What Financial Crisis? (E44)
Republicans are getting ready to shred the rules on 25 of the 38 largest banks in the country…and 16 Democrats are helping them do it! Alexis discusses the #BankLobbyistAct and tells you what you can do to stop it.
The Democrats supporting the #BankLobbyistAct are voting for: Making discrimination in lending easier https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/making-sense/opinion-how-this-senate-banking-bill-could-open-the-front-door-to-housing-discrimination
More likely future bailouts, per the Congressional Budget Office https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/03/05/senate-banking-bill-would-boost-the-chances-of-more-bank-bailouts-cbo-report-says/?utm_term=.80368d08049c
Rolling back the rules on foreign banks + big U.S. banks https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/reports/2018/02/28/447264/fact-sheet-senates-bipartisan-dodd-frank-rollback-bill/
MENTIONED ON THE SHOW
The 16 Democrats who voted to advance the BankLobbyistAct
Banks that finance assault weapons manufacturers
Call script from Indivisible: https://www.indivisible.org/resource/republicans-planning-unravel-wall-street-reform/
Image via Fibonacci Blue on flickr
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By Alexis Goldstein and Kade CrockfordRepublicans are getting ready to shred the rules on 25 of the 38 largest banks in the country…and 16 Democrats are helping them do it! Alexis discusses the #BankLobbyistAct and tells you what you can do to stop it.
The Democrats supporting the #BankLobbyistAct are voting for: Making discrimination in lending easier https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/making-sense/opinion-how-this-senate-banking-bill-could-open-the-front-door-to-housing-discrimination
More likely future bailouts, per the Congressional Budget Office https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/03/05/senate-banking-bill-would-boost-the-chances-of-more-bank-bailouts-cbo-report-says/?utm_term=.80368d08049c
Rolling back the rules on foreign banks + big U.S. banks https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/reports/2018/02/28/447264/fact-sheet-senates-bipartisan-dodd-frank-rollback-bill/
MENTIONED ON THE SHOW
The 16 Democrats who voted to advance the BankLobbyistAct
Banks that finance assault weapons manufacturers
Call script from Indivisible: https://www.indivisible.org/resource/republicans-planning-unravel-wall-street-reform/
Image via Fibonacci Blue on flickr
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