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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Lawsuits May Come for CFPB Head

When President Barack Obama appointed someone to head up the new federal consumer protection agency, he did so knowing …

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Is Obama's Cordray Appointment Unprecedented? Not By a Longshot.

President Obama “manned up” Wednesday, exercised his executive authority and announced the recess appointment of Richard Cordray as the Director …

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Elizabeth Warren Gains on Republican Opponent for Senate

With the squalls surrounding the filibuster of Richard Cordray’s nomination for director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, it was …

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Who's Killing the CFPB? We Are.

The Honorable Richard Shelby, Mitch McConnell and—to quote Spiro Agnew, “those nattering nabobs of negativism” (by which I mean the …

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GOP to Wall Street: "Richard Cordray Sleeps with the Fishes"

Memo to American consumers:  You just got screwed—again.

The too big to fail boys and their GOP handmaidens—the Hon. Richard Shelby, …

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I’m sure there’s someone out there who eagerly awaits the arrival of their credit card agreement so they can devour …

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Senate Republicans Block New Consumer Watchdog

Senate Republicans made good on their promise to block Richard Cordray from becoming the first permanent director of the Consumer …

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Down-to-the-Wire Lobbying Push for Embattled Consumer Watchdog

The Senate could vote as early as Thursday on whether to confirm former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray as the …

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How to File a Credit Card Complaint

As we wrote recently, consumers who have problems with their credit cards or mortgages can lodge their complaint with the …

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Report Finds Consumers Confused by Credit Cards

After months of controversy over whether consumers’ complaints about credit cards should be aired in public, a government watchdog agency …

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