Financial Heroes Awards: Elizabeth Warren.

THE FINANCIAL HEROES AWARD: ELIZABETH WARREN

As we have read, there are some seriously screwed up sleezeballs in the world of high finance. And it seems that no one has the courage to keep them in line. With most politicians willing to look the other way at first glace of a hand-me-out, it seems that there aren’t a lot of people willing to wear the big S on their chest and go fight crime the modern way: through legislation and policy that will protect consumers. And that’s why this week we are recommending none other than newly appointed Massachusettes state senator, Elizabeth Warren, for our bi-weekly feature “The Financial Hero Awards.”

Elizabeth Warren is a bankruptcy law expert, having graduated with a JD from Rutgers School of Law–Newark. She’s been a professor and Harvard law school and has also served on. She’s done countless interviews about the mortgage collapse, served on the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the TARP bailout (trust me, she was one of the good ones in this mess,) and was an adviser to Obama’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Her whole life has been dedicated to one main concern: preventing the financial elite from completely screwing folks like you and me.

Her rising star shone even brighter this election cycle when she took down Scott Brown, the Republican incumbent senator of Massachusettes. And right on time, too: her relationship with the Obama administration has been a positive one, and their work together has already proven crucial in the world of financial reform.

Elizabeth Warren has been a rumored candidate for the 2016 presidential election. Obviously, it was far too early to start projecting future candidates. But it could happen. She’s popular in the political world and clearly ambitious enough to fight Wall Street. If she becomes the first woman president, a clear irony will occur: that a woman will be the only person with the balls to take on corrupt financial practices.

That’s why we tip our hat to you, Senator Warren. May your work strike effectively against the elite, and may we never have another crash again with your protective oversight over our economy.