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Elizabeth Warren

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19. You're probably right, JD...

Reply to JDPriestly (Reply #17)

Mon Mar 25, 2013, 12:34 PM

Mar 2013

... I'm just old and impatient. It seems like it's hurry up and wait, hurry up and wait. Declaration of intent is better than crickets.

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Senator Warren, encouraged by vote, says time to end subsidies for 'too big to fail' banks [View all] UnrepentantLiberal Mar 2013 OP

Dodd Frank was supposed to end it so I don't know what this for show vote is supposed to accomplish. dkf Mar 2013 #1

I think that what is happening in Cyprus is a warning to the off-shore JDPriestly Mar 2013 #16

Dodd Frank Veilex Mar 2013 #27

Well that is how they sold it... dkf Mar 2013 #28

Never buy the hype... Veilex Mar 2013 #31

Yeah like calling it the "affordable care act". Puhleeze. dkf Mar 2013 #32

Indeed. Reality is... Veilex Mar 2013 #33

If it's not binding what's the sense? Don't understand the ceremony. Time and tax dollars wasted judesedit Mar 2013 #2

Think of it as a litmus test... Veilex Mar 2013 #34

Condidering who's dissing it, it must have some good in it. Scuba Mar 2013 #3

. UnrepentantLiberal Mar 2013 #4

It's a baby step... ReRe Mar 2013 #5

It does seem like an exercise in futility... dotymed Mar 2013 #13

It's a declaration of intent and that is the first step. JDPriestly Mar 2013 #17

You're probably right, JD... ReRe Mar 2013 #19

Something to placate Sen. Warren. OnyxCollie Mar 2013 #14

That's letting the free market win... setab Mar 2013 #6

Welcome to DU. UnrepentantLiberal Mar 2013 #7

Might I suggest the solution be as follows: Volaris Mar 2013 #10

Without a guaranteed profit, the big banks may have to *GASP* start caring about customers! AndyA Mar 2013 #8

Right...you realize... setab Mar 2013 #9

I think that's a stretch on your part AndyA Mar 2013 #12

What's free market? setab Mar 2013 #15

Excellent post! JDPriestly Mar 2013 #18

The problem is the "subsidy" is not a line item on a budget BlueStreak Mar 2013 #11

Did investment banking fail Cyprus? dkf Mar 2013 #20

I don't think any expert in the field denies that the 2008 meltdown happened BlueStreak Mar 2013 #22

Absolutely! ReRe Mar 2013 #21

EXACTLY as Byron Dorgan predicted it BlueStreak Mar 2013 #23

Do you remember Representative Henry Gonzalez... ReRe Mar 2013 #24

The public hasn't mattered for over a hundred years. OnyxCollie Mar 2013 #25

He was ahead of his time... ReRe Mar 2013 #26

If Warren is encouraged... iandhr Mar 2013 #29

I like what she's saying, BUT... blkmusclmachine Mar 2013 #30