Elizabeth Warren Quotes About Risk

Quotes about: Risk

• Why is the Keystone Pipeline the very first, #1 item on the Republicans' agenda? We know that this pipeline runs terrible environmental risks and it just won't do much for the American people. So why is this bill so urgent? Money and power.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Running, People, Risk

  FaceBook post by Elizabeth Warren from Jan 12, 2015

• You know, the old version was about balancing a checkbook. The new version is about the risks of debt, which is so much more widely available. So I think it's important that we design relevant financial literacy courses, and teach them starting early in grade school.

  Elizabeth Warren

  School, Thinking, Design

  Source: www.bethkobliner.com

• It's critical to level the playing field, to make prices and risks clear up front, so when someone signs on for a student loan or a mortgage or a credit card, they know the tricks and traps hidden in the fine print. That's why the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been working on a new financial aid shopping sheet. A shorter, two-page credit card agreement, a simpler mortgage disclosure form. All those are aimed toward helping people understand the basic bargain.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Agreement, Shopping, Two

  Source: www.bethkobliner.com

• Big banks churn out page after page of incomprehensible fine print to obscure the cost and risks of checking accounts, credit cards, mortgages and other financial products. The result is that consumers can't make direct product comparisons, markets aren't competitive, and costs are higher. If the playing field is leveled and the broken market fixed, a lot more money will stay in the pockets of millions of hard-working families. That's real stimulus - money to families, without increasing our national debt.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Real, Hard Work, Broken

  "Exclusive Interview: Elizabeth Warren Says Big Banks Must Stop Blocking Reform". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2012.

• Personal responsibility matters. There are no excuses for those who spend money on things they cannot afford. But it's a whole lot harder to act responsibly when consumer credit contracts are designed to be incomprehensible, when prices are obscure and risks are hidden.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Responsibility, Risk, Credit

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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