Structure unconstitutional
Says Judge Brett Kavanaugh "ruled that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was unconstitutional (reversed by full Circuit Court)."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, July 25th, 2018
One-a-day average? Yes. Because of Dodd-Frank? Not exactly.
"Since the end of the financial crisis, we have seen an average of one community bank or credit union disappear every day."
— PolitiFact Pennsylvania on Thursday, May 31st, 2018
Trump primes pump for Dodd-Frank dump
Says Donald Trump's position is "to roll back all" of the financial regulations passed after the financial crisis.
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, July 5th, 2016
Romney broke the record four years later
"President Obama took more money from Wall Street in the 2008 campaign than anybody ever had."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, March 7th, 2016
Clinton says her own plan is better
Says Hillary Clinton "couldn't bring herself to say we need to separate commercial banking and speculative banking, namely reinstating Glass-Steagall."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, October 22nd, 2015
Deregulating like it's 1999
"There's not a single, solitary example that" signing the bill to end Glass-Steagall "had anything to do with the financial crash."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, August 19th, 2015
Right on the data, but be careful about cause and effect
"The stock market does better when you have a Democratic president in the White House."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, August 4th, 2015
Longtime critic of federal role
Says U.S. Senate opponent Ron Johnson "is opposed to all government-assisted student loans."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, June 19th, 2015
If you have a 401k, you'll feel richer
"The stock market has almost tripled since April of 2009."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
Money now or money later
Greg Abbott has benefitted from "payday lenders who have given him $300,000 and then received a ruling from him that they can operate in a loophole in the law that allows them to charge unlimited rates and fees."
— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, October 29th, 2014
Not quite that much, but still a lot
In 2012, "Wall Street" gave Scott Brown "more campaign contributions than any other candidate -- $5.3 million."
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Friday, September 19th, 2014
Borrow your truck?
"The average student loan debt in Texas is over $22,000...the cost of an average size pickup truck." But unlike car owners, "students are not allowed to refinance their loans at lower rates."
— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, June 9th, 2014
Too bigger to fail?
"Today, the five largest financial institutions are 38 percent bigger than they were back in 2008, when they were too big to fail."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, May 22nd, 2014
Sometimes it doesn't pay to go where the money is
"One-third of all bank tellers (are) on public assistance."
— PunditFact on Sunday, December 8th, 2013
Bigger fish than Mitch pushed too
Says Mitch McConnell pushed "the Wall Street bailout through the U.S. Senate" and called it "the Senate at its finest."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, August 14th, 2013
Yes, unless you count the 'stealth bailout'
AIG has fully repaid the federal government "plus a profit of more than $22 billion."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013
No details but an easing of current rules
Says "Mitt Romney’s plan rolls back regulations" on banks.
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
Not all dimes are back
"We got back every dime used to rescue the banks."
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Thursday, October 25th, 2012
Not any names you've heard of
"Not a single banker, a CEO from Wall Street, anyone from corporate America — nobody, (there was) not one arrest of any of these people who brought down the economy in 2008."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, October 7th, 2011
Scheme largely crafted by the bank's investment arm
The lawyer who brought the case against NationsBank said "publicly that Alex Sink had nothing to do with the case, had nothing to do with the situation and didn't know about the problems."
— PolitiFact Florida on Tuesday, October 26th, 2010