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Format: 05-19-2013
Format: 05-19-2013
The SAFE Banking Act: A Summary Background and FAQ
[RELATED: Read Demos' Letter in Support of the SAFE Banking Act, here.] Our financial system has become dominated by institutions that are "too big to fail." Moreover, as FDIC Chairman Bill Isaac has...
April 22, 2010 | Policy Brief |
Americans for Financial Reform
Letter to U.S. Senate Urging Support For Safe Banking Act to Limit Size of Largest Financial Institutions
Dear Senator: Demos is a national, non-partisan, non-profit research and advocacy organization. As part of our research into policies to promote broadly shared prosperity, we have investigated the...
April 21, 2010 | Advocacy Letter |
Heather C. McGhee
Subpriming Our Students: Why We Need a Strong Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Watch LIVE today, Wednesday, October 26, the CFPB's Raj Date will speak in Minneapolis about student loans at 1 PM Eastern. Streaming video below. America's students are facing a serious threat...
December 2, 2009 | Policy Brief |
Demos
U.S. PIRG
The Operation, Impact, and Future of the U.S. Preference Programs
Testimony of Margrete Strand Ranges, Director of the Sierra Club's Responsible Trade Program Demos, in collaboration with a variety of environmental groups, including the Sierra Club, helped prepare...
November 17, 2009 | Testimony |
Center for Biological Diversity
Center for International Environmental Law
Defenders of Wildlife
Sierra Club
Port Trucking Down the Low Road: A Sad Story of Deregulation
As industry after industry was deregulated in the late 1970s and 1980s, the promise was of more competition, more innovation and more consumer choice. But as the Demos series of reports on...
July 21, 2009 | Report |
David Bensman
Beyond the Mortgage Meltdown: Addressing the Current Crisis, Avoiding a Future Catastrophe
Hundreds of thousands of families lost their homes because of loans that were often not fully explained or under¬stood. Beyond the Mortgage Meltdown distills the origins and nature of the crisis in...
July 15, 2009 | Report |
James Lardner
Flying Blind: Airline Deregulation Reconsidered
In this wideranging new Demos report on the airline industry, co-authors James Lardner and Robert Kuttner trace the industry's current troubles back to the decision, three decades ago, to lift most...
June 24, 2009 | Report |
James Lardner
Robert Kuttner
Risks of Financial Innovation Coupled with Deregulation: Testimony of Robert Kuttner
Distinguished Senior Fellow Robert Kuttner Testifies Before the House Financial Services Committee on the systemic risks of financial innovation coupled with deregulation.
October 2, 2007 | Testimony |
Robert Kuttner
Overdue Reform: The Need for Statewide Computerized Voter Registration Systems
Anyone who has ever been stopped by a state trooper for a traffic violation knows that the computer systems used to maintain motor vehicle records are very technologically advanced. Sitting in their...
January 1, 2002 | Report |
Charis Varnum and David Callahan