• Bring Back the Glass-Steagall Act

    The repeal enabled commercial lenders such as Citigroup, which was in 1999 the largest U.S. bank by assets, to underwrite and trade instruments such as mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations and establish so-called structured investment vehicles, or SIVs, that bought those securities. Elizabeth Warren, author and one of the five outside experts who constitute the Congressional Oversight Panel of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, has said the repeal of this act contributed to the global financial crisis of 2008-2009.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_Steagall_Act
  • Audit Bailed-Out Banks

    Neil Barofsky, Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), told lawmakers, "Inadequate oversight and insufficient information about what companies are doing with the money leaves the program open to fraud, including conflicts of interest facing fund managers, collusion between participants and vulnerabilities to money laundering."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Assets_Relief_Program#TARP_fraud
  • Overturn Citizens United

    President Barack Obama stated that the decision "gives the special interests and their lobbyists even more power in Washington" while undermining the influence of average Americans who make small contributions to support their preferred candidates". Obama later elaborated in his weekly radio address saying, "this ruling strikes at our democracy itself" and "I can't think of anything more devastating to the public interest".

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._Federal_Election_Commission#Criticisms
  • Regulate High Frequency Trading

    As SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro said in a speech on September 22, 2010, "...high frequency trading firms have a tremendous capacity to affect the stability and integrity of the equity markets. Currently, however, high frequency trading firms are subject to very little in the way of obligations either to protect that stability by promoting reasonable price continuity in tough times, or to refrain from exacerbating price volatility."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_trading
  • End False Profits / Mark to Market

    Former Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chair William Isaac placed much of the blame for the subprime mortgage crisis on the Securities and Exchange Commission and its fair-value accounting rules, especially the requirement for banks to mark their assets to market, particularly mortgage-backed securities.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark-to-market_accounting
  • End Corporate Personhood

    The Green Party, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Democracy Unlimited, and former Vice-President Al Gore are among those who have objected to the idea of corporate personhood. Their objections focus on constitutional protections–such as the right to contribute to political campaigns–that are granted to corporations.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
  • End Revolving Door Politics

    "Under current law, government officials who make contracting decisions must either wait a year before joining a military contractor or, if they want to switch immediately, must start in an affiliate or division unrelated to their government work. One big loophole is that these restrictions do not apply to many high-level policy makers..., who can join corporations or their boards without waiting."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door_(politics)
  • Strike Down Arizona SB 1070

    The bill was criticized by President Barack Obama who called it "misguided" and said it would "undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans, as well as the trust between police and our communities that is so crucial to keeping us safe."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_SB_1070
  • Tax Systemic Risk

    In finance, systemic risk is the risk of collapse of an entire financial system or entire market, as opposed to risk associated with any one individual entity, group or component of a system. It can be defined as "financial system instability, potentially catastrophic, caused or exacerbated by idiosyncratic events or conditions in financial intermediaries".

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemic_risk
  • Enforce the Volcker Rule

    The Volcker Rule is a specific piece of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act originally proposed by American economist and former United States Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker to restrict United States banks from making certain kinds of speculative investments that do not benefit their customers.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcker_rule

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