CFPB is going to be the biggest cluster*@k ever.  They are chomping at the bit to rip companies to shreds. The new head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wasted little time getting to work, using the agency’s new powers to start supervising payday lenders and other firms outside the conventional banking system. The bureau’s main goal will be ensuring that consumer loans, mortgages... 

On Tuesday, December 13 a rally was held near the LBJ Library at the University of Texas, Austin to highlight the attack on election reforms launched inside by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder went to Texas to denounce the Lone Star State’s voter ID laws and claimed that simple voter ID laws were somehow discriminatory. Holder ominously claimed that he would use the power of his office... 

A former MF Global employee accused former president William J. Clinton of collecting $50,000 per month through his Teneo advisory firm in the months before the brokerage careened towards its Halloween filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Teneo was hired by MF Global’s former CEO Jon S. Corzine to improve his image and to enhance his connections with Clinton’s political family, said the employee,... 

The European Central Bank (ECB) must pump liquidity into the 17-member financial system to stop a run on bonds and even slap a ceiling on yields to avoid a breakup of the currency zone, says billionaire financier George Soros. Soros writes in a Financial Times column that policymakers should use the European Financial Stability Facility — an emergency assistance fund — to help the European Central... 

If you’re going to call for a revolution, it helps to make sure that everyone’s on board with it, right? Apparently, that didn’t occur to the #OccupyOakland protesters who called for a general strike, but didn’t realize that the majority of people would rather work to pay their bills, send their kids to school and, you know, live their everyday lives. Read the rest here:  #OccupyOakland calls... 

Boston police were warning the more than 1,000 Occupy Boston protesters tonight to leave a large section of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway that they occupied earlier and relocate to Dewey Square or a small, adjacent strip of the Greenway. Police were visible around the areas in small batches, while protest organizers held a meeting on the Greenway, answering questions from the demonstrators. Occupy... 

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s strong statements in support of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement raise an interesting question: Does she, then, oppose the preferential treatment her son received at the hand of the financial industry? Pelosi’s son, Paul Pelosi, Jr., was protected from a round of layoffs when he was a mortgage broker for Countrywide, according to “Reckless Endangerment:... 

Former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, one of the half dozen or so Republicans running in the primary to replace retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison next year, has a problem on his hands. While he has been positioning himself as a conservative, which is the only viable case to make in a Texas statewide GOP primary, the knock on him from the grassroots has been that he did not govern as mayor as a conservative.... 

After WWI, America emerged as the dominant global military and economic power.  The allied victory in WWII cemented her place as a global superpower, and when the Cold War ended, the lone global superpower. America has weathered many storms and to date has always landed on her feet.  There were never any illusions that there were people and nations that have sought to take the USA down.  With the... 

The Democratic Party is officially encouraging supporters to go to Speaker John Boehner’s house and dump garbage on his lawn in order to intimidate him into rubber-stamping President Obama’s destructive spending spree. Such protests can easily turn violent, especially with the tense, hyper-partisan atmosphere on Capitol Hill right now. Is it a coincidence that not long after longtime ACORN...