Editorial – Consumer watchdog
Toledo Blade editorial
July 21, 2011
―The choice of former Attorney General Richard Cordray to head the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could add some bite to President Obama’s promise to protect consumers against …

Dodd-Frank rules slowly kick into consumers’ lives
Dorothy Zhang (Medill News Service)
July 21, 2011
―The Dodd-Frank law is slowly kicking into U.S. consumers‘ lives, one year after the most sweeping U.S. financial regulation since the Great Depression …

AFR sent a letter to members of Congress yesterday regarding a piece of legislation that would threaten the ability of the CFPB to sufficiently protect consumers. If enacted, this bill would virtually guarantee that the CFPB would be a weak and timid agency without the will or ability to curb the kind of financial abuses that caused the nation’s worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

Majority Of Americans Support Strong Consumer Protection Agency: Poll
James Sunshine (Huffington Post)
July 21, 2011
―As of Thursday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is open for business. And many Americans have already expressed their support. The poll, …

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 21, 2011
CONTACT:  Ed Mierzwinski, U.S. PIRG 202-461-3821
John Carey, AFR, (202) 466-1854 

 
New Report Highlights Reasons for New Consumer Protections
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau “Stands Up” Today

Washington, DC – The report, entitled “10 …

Huffpost Hill – Congress Still Targeting Olds
Huffington Post
July 20, 2011
“OCC Still a Sick Joke Masquerading as a Federal Agency – Remember when all those state regulators wanted to crack down on predatory lending in, like, …