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General Policy Materials
Reports
Polling
Events and Remarks

GENERAL POLICY MATERIALS

AFR STATEMENTS
CONGRESSIONAL VOTING RECORDS
LETTERS TO CONGRESS
LETTERS TO REGULATORS
- RESPONSES TO CFPB RFI’S
SPEECHES AND REMARKS

REPORTS

The Trump Administration, Wall Street, and the Next Recession (May 2019)
Wall Street Money in Washington (April 2019)
Finance For A Fair Economy: Managing The Financial Cycle (March 2019)
Private Equity Giants Converge on Manufactured Homes (February 2019)
Wells Fargo Scandal Tracker (February 2019 Update)
Congressional Voting Record: Where They Stand on Financial Reform (February 2019 Update)
The Volcker Rule: Its Past, Present, and Uncertain Future (October 2018)
Congressional Voting Record: Where They Stand on Financial Reform — 2nd year of 115th Congress (September 2018)
Reforming Bank Governance: Top-Down Reform and Bank Resistance (September 2018)
The Kavanaugh Nomination: What’s In It for Wall Street and Predatory Lenders (August 2018)
Voters Oppose Mulvaney Policies at CFPB (July 2018 poll)
Wall Street Money in Washington (May 2018)
Private Equity’s Failing Grade in the For-Profit College Industry (March 2018)
Congressional Voting Record – 1st year of 115th Congress (March 2018)
The Financial Services Roundtable Dangerous Policy Agenda (March 2018)
Excerpts from DC Court of Appeals Decision in PHH v. CFPB (February 2018)
Wall Street Makes Bank on Trump: 2017 in Review (January 2018)
Wall Street and Single-Family Rentals (January 2018)
Payday Lending and the Private Equity Business (December 2017)
AIG: From Bailout to Deregulation (Nov 2017)
The Same Old Song: Wall Street’s Repeatedly Discredited but Endlessly Repeated Arguments Against Common-Sense Financial Regulation (Oct 2017)
Government Sachs and the Trump Administration (Oct 2017)
Trump Deregulation Agenda Is a Gift Bag for Wall Street Banks and Predatory Lenders (Oct 2017)
How Americans View Wall Street and Financial Regulation (August 2017)
The Trump Treasury and the Big Bank Agenda (June 2017)
Claims and Facts about the Impact of Dodd Frank on Community Banks (June 2017)
Wall Street Money in Washington (March 2017)
Congressional Voting Record – 114th Congress (Jan 2017)
How Trump Voters View Financial Regulation (Dec 2016)
Payday Pay-to-Play (June 2015)
CFPB Defense Toolkit
Caught in the Debt Trap (People’s Action Institute/AFR)
Prepaid Card Materials
Ten Ways the CFPB Safeguards Your Money
Cost of the Crisis
Large Regional Banks — Myths and Realities
Dodd-Frank Materials
Congressional Voting Record – 113th Congress (May 2015)

POLLING

AFR/CRL Poll Shows Wide Discontent With Mulvaney Path at CFPB (July 31, 2018)
Voters of all political parties overwhelmingly oppose the actions taken by Mick Mulvaney to undermine the mission of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and feel a strong connection between lax enforcement of the rules on Wall Street and their daily welfare. Ten years after the 2008 financial crisis brought on a searing recession, the survey revealed enduring, strong, and bipartisan support for tougher regulation of Wall Street and predatory lenders.
Take On Wall Street Poll: Key Findings from Battleground Congressional District Survey on Curbing Wall Street’s Influence (May 29, 2018)
A new nationwide survey of likely 2018 voters in key battleground congressional districts reveals overwhelming, broad-based, and intense support for curbing big banks’ influence in Washington, and holding financial companies accountable for discrimination.
Take On Wall Street Poll: Messaging the Financial Transaction Tax (May 20, 2018)
A new nationwide survey of likely 2018 voters in key battleground congressional districts reveals overwhelming, broad-based, and intense support for curbing big banks’ influence in Washington, including solid backing for a Financial Transaction Tax, especially if it’s referred to as a “sales tax”.
Take On Wall Street Poll: Voters Support Efforts to Fight Lending Discrimination (May 11, 2018) Across parties and regions, American voters believe the government should fight discrimination by financial firms against African-Americans and Latinos in lending.

AFR/CRL Polling Memo: Fifth Consecutive Year of Broad Backing of CFPB and Wall Street Reform (July 18, 2017)
For 5 years, Lake Research Partners and Chesapeake Beach Consulting have polled the public on Wall Street reform. For 5 years running, they have found broad, bipartisan support for the goals of the Dodd-Frank law — and more.
AFR/CRL Poll: Strong Bipartisan Support for Financial Regulation and CFPB (July 18, 2017)
Bipartisan Poll: Americans Express Broad Support for Financial Regulation and the Work of the CFPB (July 15, 2016)

EVENTS AND REMARKS

Big Bank Regulation Under the Trump Administration (May 2019)
Wall Street And The Next Recession — Protecting Main Street In The Next Economic Downturn (March 2019)
“Five Economic Experts in Dialogue on the Ten Year Anniversary of the Failure of Lehman Brothers” (September 2018)
Regulating Wall Street — Ten Years Later, Where Do We Stand? (July 2018)
Payday Loan Summit (December 2017)
Black Edge: Book event with Sheelah Kolhatkar (November 2017)
Glass-Steagall for the 21st Century (September 2017)
Launch of Retirement Ripoff Counter (April 2017)
Trump Marries Wall Street: Mock Wedding Ceremony at the Capitol (February 2017)
Why We Need to Restore Glass-Steagall (Sept. 2016)
Exploring Shadow Banking (July 2016)
CFPB Fifth Birthday Bash (July 2016)
Payday Loan Sharks – the Ruinous Scam Preying on Our Communities (July 2016)
Launch of Take on Wall Street Campaign (May 2016)
Hedge Funds and Private Equity (Nov. 2015)
Capitol Hill Briefing on Postal Banking (Nov. 2015)
Can Regulators End Too Big To Fail? A Discussion of Dodd-Frank Resolution Planning (Nov. 2015)
Bond Market Liqudity, Regulation and the Public Interest (Aug. 2015)
“How the Other Half Banks” – Book Event at National Press Club (Oct. 2015)
Dodd-Frank at 5, the Consumer Bureau at 4 (July 2015)
The Federal Reserve, Wall Street and Main Street (Dec. 2014)
Moving Toward a Wall Street Tax (Sept. 2014)
Banking Without Wall Street (May 2014)
The Threat to Retirement Security (May 2014)
Critiquing Cost-Benefit Analysis of Financial Regulation (May 2014)
“An Unfinished Mission: Making Wall Street Work for All of Us” (Nov. 2013)
“Financial Justice” Book Launch (Oct. 2013)
“Futurization” and the Coming Transformation of the Swaps Market (Jan. 2013)
Regulating Shadow Banking (Nov. 2013)
Additional Events

COALITION STATEMENTS