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Laundry List for new Consumer Bureau

New Orleans After much sound and fury the Obama Administration seems to have slipped Professor Elizabeth Warren in through the side door of the White House to setup the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.  It’s all confusing since the Bureau is squeezed between the Federal Reserve and Treasury Departments, and Warren herself has been [...]

Payday Lending Loopholes

Takoma Park Financial reform for consumers has been in deep water and drowning ever since Rep. Barney Frank nixed the White House inserted CRA protection from the bill, but in the “something is better than nothing” world we’re forced to live in these days, at the least we have to draw the line at [...]

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