A year ago, Elizabeth Warren was pitied, the visionary of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau who would not be appointed to direct her baby, due to politics and Wall Street pressure. Turns out the baby is doing just fine without Warren, providing tough oversight on debt collection, credit card marketing practices, and payday loan operations, just as she envisioned. Warren’s doing fine, too — actually, better than fine. In the aftermath of the CFPB diss, she challenged and beat Republican incumbent (and rising star) Scott Brown for the U.S. Senate post in Massachusetts, and, quite appropriately, just landed a seat on the Banking Committee.
People Who Mattered in 2012
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- Bashar Assad
- Ben Bernanke
- Jeff Bezos
- John Boehner
- Chris Christie
- Hillary Clinton
- Bill Clinton
- Stephen Colbert
- Claire Danes
- Gabby Douglas
- Mario Draghi
- Lena Dunham
- Sandra Fluke
- Roger Goodell
- Klaus Jacob
- E.L. James
- Jay-Z
- Xi Jinping
- Paul Kagame
- Imran Khan
- Christine Lagarde
- Erik Martin and Violentacrez
- Trayvon Martin
- Marissa Mayer
- Angela Merkel
- Khaled Meshal
- Kate Middleton
- Enrique Peña Nieto
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- Frank Ocean
- Michelle Obama
- Larry Page
- Jonah Peretti
- David Petraeus
- Michael Phelps
- Psy
- Pussy Riot
- Susan Rice
- John Roberts
- Mitt Romney
- Paul Ryan
- Thein Sein
- Nate Silver
- Anne-Marie Slaughter
- Jon Stewart
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Undocumented Immigrants
- Kim Jong Un
- Kate Upton
- Elizabeth Warren