This article from Zach Carter with SNL Financial outlines the problems with the current regulation, and lack thereof, of Refund Anticipation Loans.
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The Associated Press has this report about Chairman Sheila Bair’s support for a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency.  Here is an excerpt:
WASHINGTON — The head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. pitched again Monday for …

A group of concerned Southwestern Missouri residents were fed up with a lack of representation from their Congressman, Roy Blunt.  They decided to try the bank trick that has been getting industry leaders into the …

The Pew Research Center recently found that a majority of Americans supports government regulation of financial companies.  Read their full results here,  and here are excepts from the findings:
While the public is wary of too …