Elizabeth Warren News
The Daily Signal examines Elizabeth Warren’s ongoing push for corporate accountability, tax increases, and government oversight, with analysis of her continued impact on economic and fiscal debates.
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Tech Entrepreneur Explains Why Elizabeth Warren Is Wrong About Big Tech
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., insists that “competition is dying” in the tech industry because of giant corporations like Google, Amazon, and Apple. But to entrepreneur Christopher Searles, they don’t pose a threat to companies like his. In fact, quite the opposite, he tells The Daily Signal. “As a tech entrepreneur and small business owner, I…Fred Lucas -
Should the Postal Service Handle Your Loans as Well as Your Mail? Elizabeth Warren Thinks So.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is inching closer to eliminating private payday lending with restrictive new rules and, some advocates hope, paving the way for the U.S. Postal Service to take over these banking services. The agency’s liberal supporters, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., long have wanted to replace the payday lending industry with a…Mollie McNeill -
These Blue States Have Tried the Elizabeth Warren Model. Their Residents Are Fleeing.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently appeared on one of the late night talk shows, beating the class warfare drum and arguing for billions of dollars in new social programs paid for with higher taxes on millionaires and billionaires. In recent years, though, blue states such as California, Illinois, Delaware, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland and Minnesota adopted this…Stephen Moore -
Hey, PolitiFact, Elizabeth Warren’s Inaccurate Statement Isn’t ‘Mostly True’
A recent PolitiFact review of a statement by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., suggests that a statement can be factually inaccurate yet “mostly true.” In a Jan. 7 speech, Sen. Warren said: “The average family not in the top 10 percent makes less money today than they were making a generation ago.” This flies in the…Salim Furth -
Elizabeth Warren, AFL-CIO, Teamsters Voice Opposition to Government Spending Bill
Several key liberal lawmakers and interest groups voiced opposition to the House Republican spending bill today, adding their voices to a chorus of conservative critics hoping to derail the plan. >>> Related: Government Spending Bill Faces Uncertain Fate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who was recently elevated to a Democratic leadership role, urged her colleagues to vote…Rob Bluey -
Memo to Elizabeth Warren: Here’s the Right Way to Make Financial Markets Safer
Recently I had the pleasure of testifying at a Senate hearing. The topic was “Improving Financial Institution Supervision: Examining and Addressing Regulatory Capture.” “Regulatory capture” refers to a common phenomenon: individuals serving as regulators come to identify with the firms they regulate at least as much as with the agencies that employ them. Thus, the regulator…Norbert Michel -
Elizabeth Warren Is Wrong. Big Government Programs Will Just Increase College Costs.
Congress has long tried to help students afford a college education. It has cut interest rates on federal student loans, vastly expanded federal lending and lifted caps on borrowing. In the 1980s, it even let parents borrow directly from the feds — through the Parent PLUS program — to pay for their children’s college. None…Lindsey Burke