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		<title>Has the GOP Found a Way to Stop Consumer Protection in its Tracks?</title>
		<link>http://janebryantquinn.com/2011/05/has-the-gop-found-a-way-to-stop-consumer-protection-in-its-tracks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 10:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Banks & Banking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s high on the hit list in Washington DC today? The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was created to defend you from lying and predatory lenders. The financial industry hates the bureau and wants it gone. Their lobbyists and legislators couldn&#8217;t stop it from being enacted into law. Now, they&#8217;re trying to cripple it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicare reform: Will the Boomers throw the next generation under the bus?</title>
		<link>http://janebryantquinn.com/2011/05/medicare-reform-will-the-boomers-throw-the-next-generation-under-the-bus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 10:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ What should you do to guarantee yourself access to future medical care? If you&#8217;re under 55, talk to your parents or your grandparents. They hold the votes that will decide whether your options will be as good as theirs.
The Republicans, in a recent House budget resolution, offered seniors and Boomers a breathtaking deal. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rising Prices and Budget Cuts: 3 Things to Do With Your Money Now</title>
		<link>http://janebryantquinn.com/2011/04/rising-prices-and-budget-cuts-3-things-to-do-with-your-money-now/</link>
		<comments>http://janebryantquinn.com/2011/04/rising-prices-and-budget-cuts-3-things-to-do-with-your-money-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 08:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bonds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget cuts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stay with your stocks, is the message that investors are getting from some key market and economic forecasters. They&#8217;re betting that the economy can stand up by itself, as the government cuts its budget and the stimulus programs gradually wind down.
Not that there isn&#8217;t plenty to worry about: high gasoline prices, unfinished revolutions in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the banks really hit you with debit card fees? Maybe not</title>
		<link>http://janebryantquinn.com/2011/03/will-the-banks-really-hit-you-with-debit-card-fees-maybe-not/</link>
		<comments>http://janebryantquinn.com/2011/03/will-the-banks-really-hit-you-with-debit-card-fees-maybe-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 14:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Banks & Banking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debit Cards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bank fees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debit card fees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dodd-Frank]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The big banks are threatening to hit you with fees for using your debit card. JPMorgan Chase fired the first shot across the bow last week, by canceling its debit-card rewards program.
Why is this happening? Because the banks lost an epic battle with retailers, which will force them to slash the fees they collect on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could There Be Another Financial Collapse? Yes, If the Banks Block Financial Reform</title>
		<link>http://janebryantquinn.com/2011/03/could-there-be-another-financial-collapse-yes-if-the-banks-block-financial-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://janebryantquinn.com/2011/03/could-there-be-another-financial-collapse-yes-if-the-banks-block-financial-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Wall Street reform already dead? The bankers and other gazillionaires are back in the driver&#8217;s seat, in Washington D.C. For you and me, that means taking a more conservative stance with our personal money. Unbridled speculation and financial deceit brought us the Great Economic Collapse of 2008. If the new Congress undermines the Dodd-Frank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The House slashes consumer protection. Is it obeying the law?</title>
		<link>http://janebryantquinn.com/2011/02/the-house-slashes-consumer-protection-is-it-obeying-the-law/</link>
		<comments>http://janebryantquinn.com/2011/02/the-house-slashes-consumer-protection-is-it-obeying-the-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has Congress found a way to exert its political will on the supposedly independent Federal Reserve Board? And, in the process, murder the infant Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?
If so, say goodbye to future, broad actions to save consumers from credit card and other financial abuse, including the enforcement of current laws. Government action against deception [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the SEC force your broker to behave?</title>
		<link>http://janebryantquinn.com/2011/01/will-the-sec-force-your-broker-to-behave/</link>
		<comments>http://janebryantquinn.com/2011/01/will-the-sec-force-your-broker-to-behave/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fiduciary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investment advisers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It&#8217;s too soon to put on the party hats. The investor protection community cheered this week, when the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission recommended that stockbrokers take more legal responsibility for the financial advice they give. But we&#8217;re a long way from moving that proposal into an actual rule of conduct. Of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call off the tax planning: Rates will probably stay the same</title>
		<link>http://janebryantquinn.com/2010/11/call-off-the-tax-planning-rates-will-probably-stay-the-same/</link>
		<comments>http://janebryantquinn.com/2010/11/call-off-the-tax-planning-rates-will-probably-stay-the-same/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://janebryantquinn.com/?p=1412</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What was billed as the Great Year-End Tax Wrestle seems to be ending with a whimper instead of a bang. The White House might surrender to the Republicans and their own Democratic conservatives. Odds are, Bush&#8217;s tax cuts for the wealthy will continue, at a 10-year cost of nearly $700 billion. The revenue loss would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After the elections: Protecting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau</title>
		<link>http://janebryantquinn.com/2010/11/after-the-elections-protecting-the-consumer-financial-protection-bureau/</link>
		<comments>http://janebryantquinn.com/2010/11/after-the-elections-protecting-the-consumer-financial-protection-bureau/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can the Republicans de-fund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? The answer is no &#8211; at least, not as the law stands now. As far as is possible, Congress sheltered the bureau from hostile political interference.
Supporters of the law took a lesson from what happened at the Securities and Exchange Commission, when financial lobbyists poured cash [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The election and health reform: The uninsured could lose big-time</title>
		<link>http://janebryantquinn.com/2010/10/the-election-and-health-reform-the-uninsured-could-lose-big-time/</link>
		<comments>http://janebryantquinn.com/2010/10/the-election-and-health-reform-the-uninsured-could-lose-big-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stakes for health reform are high. If Republicans win the House in the  midterm elections, they will set the agenda. The Affordable Care Act could  slowly be torn apart &#8211; not by repeal, but by denying the money needed to put its  provisions into effect. Rep. John Boehner (and Speaker-in-waiting) says,  [...]]]></description>
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