{"id":17956,"date":"2014-08-13T15:46:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T19:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=17956"},"modified":"2014-08-13T15:52:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T19:52:05","slug":"watch-elizabeth-warren-push-the-bank-regulators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/08\/13\/watch-elizabeth-warren-push-the-bank-regulators\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Elizabeth Warren Push The Bank Regulators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Warren has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ElizabethWarren\/posts\/10152382018373687\" title=\"Elizabeth Warren's Facebook post\" target=\"_blank\">post on her Facebook page<\/a> where she says the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nLast week, federal regulators acknowledged that all of the biggest banks remain Too Big to Fail. I&#8217;ve pushed these regulators to use the full extent of their authority, including breaking up the biggest banks, to make sure no bank&#8217;s failure can bring down the economy again.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Her posts leads to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/business\/2014\/08\/12\/delamaide-banks-living-wills\/13977009\/\" title=\"USA Today article\" target=\"_blank\">article in USA Today<\/a> and ultimately to the video below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/XYw0xYFBnn8?rel=0\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>As the USA article says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhile the legislative process in Washington seems to be broken, congressional oversight shows occasional signs of being alive and kicking.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point: Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., skewered Federal Reserve chairman Janet Yellen at a hearing in July on the subject of living wills that large banks are supposed to be submitting \u2014 credible plans on how bankruptcy of these behemoths could be handled in a rapid and orderly fashion without taxpayer bailouts.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Maybe what these plans may need to have is an estimated time that would be required to liquidate the banks with the proposed plan.<\/p>\n<p>We need to make sure that the voters know that at least some parts of our government are working and just who the people are that are making it work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Warren has a post on her Facebook page where she says the following: Last week, federal regulators acknowledged that all of the biggest banks remain Too Big to Fail. I&#8217;ve pushed these regulators to use the full extent of their authority, including breaking up the biggest banks, to make sure no bank&#8217;s failure can [&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-17956","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\/17956","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=17956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17959,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17956\/revisions\/17959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}