Tag: consumer

Consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren, speaking Thursday evening at the Mario Savio Memorial Lecture, diverged from her “standard” speech — on the worsening financial straits of the U.S. middle class — to talk about what it means “to build a new agency in a new world where information travels at the speed of light.” Warren said new technology can help make the agency responsive to consumers and less vulnerable to “capture” by the financial-services industry.