Senator Elizabeth Warren thoroughly smacks Melvin Watt, the new director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), about principal reduction for homeowners, at a Senate Banking Committee hearing on November 19, 2014. As the Charlotte Observer explained: “The agency oversees mortgage finance titans Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, both in government receivership since September 2008 […]
TED, the Technology Entertainment and Design nonprofit behind the TED Talks, whose slogan is “ideas worth spreading” recently decided that some ideas are better left alone. In March 2012 Nick Hanauer, millionaire tech investor and entrepreneur gave a talk at a TED conference. In his talk, Hanauer argued that the rich aren’t responsible for the […]
I won’t be pleased with a budget deal unless Paul Ryan and Grover Norquist both pull their hair out. Then we’ll know we made some progress. News flash: compromise and sacrifice are hard. We need to reduce spending and obligations on everything from Medicare to Defense to Ag subsidies. No sacred cows. And unfortunately, we […]
Elizabeth Warren says she is not running for president in 2016 but as The Nation reported earlier this week, “when the senator from Massachusetts took the stage at this year’s Netroots Nation conference… Warren came to Detroit with the platform on which Democrats should be running in 2016. And in 2014.” What Elizabeth Warren brought […]
This short clip is from part of Elizabeth Warren’s “Talking Tour” in Andover, Massachusetts, back in August 2011 while campaigning for Senator. In the clip Warren talks about why our country is facing a massive deficit and what it would take to move us forward as a nation. The video was taken and put together […]