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Welcome to the Investors Trading Academy event of the week. Each week our staff of educators
tries to introduce you to a person of interest in the financial world. This could be a person
in government or banking or an important investors or trader.
Twice recently, Sen. Elizabeth Warren has unleashed a seemingly unprompted tweetstorm
on Donald Trump, taking shots at the presumptive Republican presidential nominee for being
sexist, a scam artist, “reckless” and “embarrassing.” Her loud voice and support
of Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton has skyrocketed her into the headlines lately
along with rumors of a vice presidential spot. Elizabeth Warren, a fearless consumer advocate
who has made her life's work the fight for middle class families, was elected to the
United States Senate on November 6, 2012, by the people of Massachusetts.
Elizabeth is recognized as one of the nation's top experts on bankruptcy and the financial
pressures facing middle class families, and the Boston Globe has called her "the plainspoken
voice of people getting crushed by so many predatory lenders and under regulated banks."
Elizabeth Warren says she “came up the hard way … out of a hard-working middle class
family in an America that created opportunities for kids like me.” She has made her life’s
work fighting for middle class families. TIME magazine has called her a “New Sheriff
of Wall Street” and has twice included her among America’s 100 most influential people.
She’s taken on big banks and financial institutions to win historic new financial protections
for middle class families. Elizabeth learned first-hand about the economic
pressures facing middle class families. When she was twelve, her dad suffered a heart attack.
The store where he worked changed his job and cut his pay, and the medical bills piled
up. The family lost their car, and her mom went to work answering phones at Sears to
pay the mortgage. Elizabeth has been a law professor at Harvard
for nearly 20 years and has written nine books, including two national best-sellers, and more
than a hundred articles. National Law Journal named her one of the Most Influential Lawyers
of the Decade, and she has been honored by the Massachusetts Women’s Bar Association
with the Leila J. Robinson Award. She is widely credited for the original thinking,
political courage, and relentless persistence that led to the creation of a new consumer
financial protection agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She led the establishment
of the agency, building the structure and organization to hold accountable even trillion-dollar
financial institutions and to protect consumers from financial tricks and traps often hidden
in mortgages, credit cards and other financial products.
Elizabeth and her husband Bruce Mann, who was born and grew up in the Boston area, have
been married for 35 years and have three grandchildren. They live in Cambridge.