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Amid Health and Economic Crisis, Trump CFPB Solicits Industry Input for Taskforce Run By Guy Who Applauded Price-Gouging During Hurricane Katrina
Apparently not even a pandemic and an economy in freefall is enough to keep Trump CFPB Kathy Kraninger from conducting her usual business of serving the interests of the financial industry at the expense of consumers.
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Amid Coronavirus Crisis, CFPB and Fellow Trump Financial Regulators Open Door For Banks to Get Into Predatory Lending Game
The Trump administration should not view this crisis as an opportunity for wealthy special interests to cash in.
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CFPB Director Kraninger to Testify Before Senate As Mystery Shrouds Her New Industry-Packed ‘Task Force’
Kraninger is keeping the public in the dark about her new ‘task force’ set up to pick apart consumer financial laws and recommend rollbacks to consumer protections.
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Allied Progress Joins Consumer Advocates in Urging SCOTUS to Keep the CFPB Strong and Independent
Industries with an axe to grind against the CFPB are not credible voices to challenge its independence – or its very existence.
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Allied Progress Statement on Leonard Chanin Becoming CFPB Acting Deputy Director
Chanin had a front row seat during the 2008 financial crisis as one of the financial regulators that let the economy go up in flames.
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Second-In-Command of Trump CFPB Spins Through Revolving Door Into Arms of Major Corporate Law Firm
Brian Johnson is cashing in and taking a plum K Street corporate gig after laying the groundwork for this moment for years.
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CFPB Director Kraninger Faces Congress One Year After She Unveiled Payday Protection Rollback
Kraninger’s semi-annual report would be incomplete and highly misleading if she neglects to mention that her decision to delay the ability-to-repay standard from taking effect last August has already cost consumers more than $3 billion and counting.
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At HFSC Hearing, Conservative Members Defend Rent-a-Bank Schemes After Taking Tons of Rent-a-Bank Money
It’s clear that some Committee Members are more worried over keeping the predatory lender money spigot open than the potentially billions of dollars consumers would save every year with a national interest rate cap.
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CFPBWatch.org Launched, Spotlights Trump Administration’s Anti-Consumer Agenda
New Effort from Allied Progress Documents Who Is ‘Weakening the Bureau From Within,’ Exposes Administration’s Corporate Conflicts of Interest
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REPORT: Most Who Filed SCOTUS Amicus Briefs Opposing CFPB’s Constitutionality Have Financial Motive in Crippling the Bureau
The vast majority of those who filed challenges to the bureau’s for-cause removal provision – and some to the CFPB’s very existence – have financial motives in seeing the bureau stripped of its independence or struck down entirely.