{"id":10461,"date":"2012-03-11T17:29:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T22:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=10461"},"modified":"2019-03-27T17:05:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T21:05:50","slug":"elizabeth-warren-holding-banks-accountable-charlestown-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/03\/11\/elizabeth-warren-holding-banks-accountable-charlestown-ma\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Warren &#8211; Holding Banks Accountable &#8211; Charlestown, MA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who do not know about Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s expertise in consumer finance, here she is explaining how the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau is trying to simplify various consumer financial forms.  The CFPB is the agency that Warren fought to have created and which she set up.  The Republicans were too protective of the banks to let her run the agency, that is why we get to voter for her as the U.S. Senator for Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T4M5VgaGJEc?rel=0\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>On <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ElizabethWarren\/posts\/301952016538676\" title=\"Elizabeth Warren's Facebook Post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her Facebook post about this video<\/a><\/strong>, she says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOn Wednesday, I met with a small group in Charlestown to talk about protecting consumers from tricks and traps hidden in the fine print of consumer loans. One person asked why banks and credit card companies aren\u2019t forced to write in simple language that everyone can understand. Here was my response.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who do not know about Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s expertise in consumer finance, here she is explaining how the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau is trying to simplify various consumer financial forms. The CFPB is the agency that Warren fought to have created and which she set up. The Republicans were too protective of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10461"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27030,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461\/revisions\/27030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}