"The banks, big banks, always get what they want," says Warren, in the third part of her sitdown interview with Aaron Task at The Economist's Buttonwood gathering. "They have all the money, all the lobbyists. And boy is that's true on this one. There's just not a lobby on the other side."

I find it astonishing that they have the nerve to show up and say, 'I'm a big financial institution. I took your money. And now I'm going to lobby against anything that might offer some protection to ordinary families in this marketplace,' " Warren says.

Posted Oct 16, 2009 01:00pm
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