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What Elizabeth Warren Said About Creating a Consumer Agency

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Elizabeth Warren

Tough enough to take on Wall Street?

Elizabeth Warren, Harvard economics professor and chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel, is a leading advocate for accountability and transparency. As such, she advocates creation of new consumer financial protection agency, which of course is getting resistance from the Republicans. Here’s what she said:

My first choice is a strong consumer agency. My second choice is no agency at all and plenty of blood and teeth left on the floor.

Here’s Ms. Warren’s op-ed from Politico entitled “Banking on Hypocrisy.”

Go Liz!

Written by Catherine

March 31st, 2010 at 5:58 am