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Managing Financial Goals: Study on Investment Advisers and Broker-Dealers
"the standard of conduct for all brokers, dealers, and investment advisers, when providing personalized investment advice about securities to retail customers ... shall be to act in the best interest of the customer without regard to the financial or other interest of the broker, dealer, or investment adviser providing the advice" more »
How Did Labor Do in the 2010 Election?
"Labor 2010 member-to-member mobilization included 30 million phone calls, 20 million pieces of mail and 5.1 million knocks on union family doors." The percent of union households voting Democratic has held up as well as it has because of the growth of public sector unions such as AFSCME and SEIU more »
Frontline's The Card Game; An Examination of Credit Card Practices
President Obama and his team pushed through a credit card reform bill in May, and they're now looking to establish a new Consumer Finance Protection Agency. But the banking and financial services industries contribute huge amounts of money to Congress - and the jury is still out on whether the new regulations can pass. From a Frontline press release about the upcoming PBS program about the consumer loan industry and its impact on a fragile economy. more »