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Loose restrictions and a lack of transparency and oversight have allowed financial institutions to engage in reckless practices like buying and packaging subprime mortgage-backed securities.

Americans can't stand by as the financial sector takes excessive risks using retirees savings and backed by bailouts using taxpayers' hard-earned dollars.

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Reining In Wall Street

For too long, bankers themselves have written the rules on Wall Street.

This year, that has to change. Read more.

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The American banking and financial services system lacks basic rules to guide the marketplace, transparency, and accountability. Last year, this created a financial crisis that brought the world economy to the brink of collapse.

Over 7 million Americans have lost their jobs,

We need a financial system that:

• protects consumers against predatory loans and practices;

• provides greater transparency for Wall Street; and

• ends the need for future bailouts by making sure no bank is “too big to fail.” 

We need to protect consumers and our economic future with new rules to put a check on irresponsible banking practices and we need to make sure those rules are enforced. We need independent enforcement. No more cozy relationships between regulators and the regulated.