{"id":3989,"date":"2017-10-19T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/?p=3989"},"modified":"2017-10-16T10:38:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T17:38:53","slug":"the-monopoly-man-just-photobombed-the-equifax-senate-hearing-and-it-will-make-your-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/the-monopoly-man-just-photobombed-the-equifax-senate-hearing-and-it-will-make-your-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Monopoly Man Just Photobombed the Equifax Senate Hearing and It Will Make Your Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Occasionally lifting the characteristic monocle for a clearer view of the Senate Banking Committee\u2019s hearing for the astounding Equifax data breach, Rich Uncle Pennybags \u2014 perhaps better known as the \u2018Monopoly\u2019 man from the classic board game \u2014 carried out an epic photo bomb to raise awareness of the dearth in consumer rights against the monolithic financial industry.<\/p>\n

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Complete with black top hat and impeccably-mustached, Pennybags\u00a0observed\u00a0the proceedings quietly from the gallery \u2014 occasionally peering through the single lens or blotting sweat from his brow with enormous paper money \u2014 as Equifax CEO Richard Smith testified to the Senate, taking full blame for an inexcusable and embarrassing data breach of the personal information on more than 145 million people.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Of course, given Wednesday\u2019s appearance comes on the heels of nearly identical proceedings in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday, it wasn\u2019t surprising the embattled Equifax head failed to notice the cartoon board game heckler a couple rows back.<\/p>\n

Pennybags, in actuality, was Amanda Werner of Americans for Financial Reform and Public Citizen, who agreed to the fitting photobomb and publicity stunt to bring sharp attention to\u00a0forced arbitration\u00a0\u2014 described as Big Banks\u2019 \u2018Get Out of Jail Free\u2019 card, as it allows shirking of responsibility and accountability for swindling customers.<\/p>\n

\u201cArbitration is a rigged game,\u201d<\/i>\u00a0Pennyb\u2014 \u00a0\u2026 Werner\u00a0told\u00a0CNBC<\/i>\u00a0in a statement through email.\u00a0\u201cBank lobbyists and their allies in Congress are trying to overturn the CFPB\u2019s rule so they can continue to rip off consumers with impunity.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Werner also distributed mock Monopoly \u2018Get Out of Jail Free\u2019 cards as part of the stunt.<\/p>\n

On forced arbitration, Public Citizen\u00a0writes,<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Senate leadership is pushing to roll back the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau\u2019s arbitration rule using the Congressional Review Act\u2019s (CRA) expedited process and has until early November to act. The rule allows consumers to join together in class actions to challenge wrongdoing in court. Widespread wrongdoing and negligence at Wells Fargo and Equifax and their attempts to evade legal accountability using forced arbitration \u2018rip-off\u2019 clauses have transformed the issue from an obscure regulatory debate into a leading national story.<\/i><\/p>\n

Read more HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Source: themindunleashed.com<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Occasionally lifting the characteristic monocle for a clearer view of the Senate Banking Committee\u2019s hearing for the astounding Equifax data breach, Rich Uncle Pennybags \u2014 perhaps better known as the \u2018Monopoly\u2019 man from the classic board game \u2014 carried out an epic photo bomb to raise awareness of the dearth in consumer rights against the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[922,923,252,924],"class_list":["post-3989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-monopoly","tag-monopoly-man","tag-news","tag-senate-hearing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3989"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4048,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions\/4048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}