Our friends at the National Consumer Law Center have put together a great two-page report on the dire need for federal regulation of non-bank lenders. The report focuses on the problems created by the current lack of regulation of debt collectors and debt buyers, credit
Sign our latest petition to hold big banks accountable! Urge your Senators to support financial reform and the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Write to your Senators today and ask them to resist the Wall Street lobbyists, and stand up for the rest of us. As
George Soros has made billions of dollars predicting the ups and downs of global financial markets. In this discussion with NPR’s Steve Inskeep he strongly endorses the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA). Listen here.
Click here to watch! Then call your Senators toll free (866-544-7573) and tell them to support financial reform. Heidi Montag knows a thing or two about plastic. The star of The Hills recently had 10 plastic surgery procedures in one day, but now she’s speaking
Click here to watch! Then call your Senators toll free (866-544-7573) and tell them to support financial reform. Will Ferrell, Fred Armisen, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Dana Carvey and Darrell Hammond, the Saturday Night Live actors who have played every American president since Gerald Ford
This information is courtesy of AFR member the National Consumer Law Center: In the debate over the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA), some have argued that an independent CFPA might issue rules that jeopardize bank safety and soundness. However, as with other agencies whose actions
Ann Brown, former Chair of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, recently submitted this Op-Ed to The Hill in support of a CFPA. She says: As former chair of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, I know a product when I see one. Mortgages or
Deborah Jackson, is one member of a group of businesswomen who went to Congress this week to speak on behalf of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Watch Deborah’s interview below and learn more about the group here:
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 new agency for consumer financial protection, now a
CONSUMERS DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY: NCLR Delivers Petition Calling for a Strong Consumer Financial Protection Agency Washington, DC—Fed-up consumers from throughout the nation got their message to Congress today when NCLR (National Council of La Raza), the largest national Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the