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Trump CFPB’s Industry-Packed Task Force Predictably Offers Anti-Consumer Recommendations That Congress Should Roundly Reject
The Trump CFPB’s highly secretive, industry-packed Taskforce on Federal Consumer Financial Law released its recommendations for picking apart consumer protection laws today that no one outside of Wall Street lobbyists were asking for.
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Dodd-Frank Turns 10: Trump Administration’s Fair Lending Failures Underscore Need to Strengthen Law
On the ten-year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, consumer watchdog group Allied Progress released a report spotlighting how the Trump administration has worked to undermine fair lending protections and — as the recent PPP program showed — how much work there is left to do to make our financial system accessible to all.
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GOP Congress Trying to Kneecap CFPB After It Fined Their Payday Lending Donor in Case Started Under Cordray
Would the CFPB have been free to pursue the Payday Lender it fined $5 Million yesterday if Congress controlled its purse strings?
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Shot & Chaser: Mulvaney Wants to Slash Millions from CFPB Travel Budget… and Spend More Time “Going Into The Field?”
Make Up Your Mind, Mick – Do You Want To Cut CFPB’s Budget By 20%…Or Do You Want To Spend More Time In the Field?
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Look Out Kansas Consumers… Mick Mulvaney Is Coming to Town
CFPB’s “Acting Director” and Kansas Attorney General will hold Friday town hall while a mobile billboard carries warning for Kansas seniors and consumers.
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Fed’s Volcker Rule Rewrite Dangerous for Consumers, Allows Big Banks to Play Casino Again
Created in the aftermath of the 2008 Financial Crisis, the Volcker Rule was designed to keep big banks from engaging in risky behavior.
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Mulvaney Tells Anti-CFPB Crowd He’ll Weaken Anti-Discrimination Efforts and Use Fuzzy Math to Give Wall Street A Pass
In a speech to a group funded by a Who’s Who of anti-CFPB Wall Street Insiders today, Mick Mulvaney telegraphed massive changes to the CFPB’s Consumer Protection Mission.
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Mulvaney Should Quit Fantasizing and Fulfill the CFPB’s Consumer Protection Mission
Mulvaney says he wants the Bureau to be a “Gold Standard” regulatory agency like the SEC, but he can’t even match the work of previous CFPB Director Richard Cordray.
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House GOP Again Attempting to Sabotage CFPB By Letting Wall Street-Backed D.C. Politicians Control Its Funding
The Bureau was specifically designed to be an independent financial regulator so that compromised politicians wouldn’t be able to stop Its consumer protection mission.