Topic: Consumer Financial Protection Agency
Matthew Yglesias proposes a divide-and-conquer strategy when it comes to pushing through financial reform legislation: Get the systemic stuff done with the help of Bob Corker, and then draft a second bill, with the help of some other Republican, creating a Consumer ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan agreement on financial regulation reform was close at hand on Thursday in the Senate, with lawmakers working to overcome a key obstacle -- creating a new financial consumer watchdog.Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd, committee chairman, and top committee ...
The single biggest question hanging over the future of financial reform in the US right now is what exactly is acceptable to Bob Corker in terms of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Simon Johnson says that "the consumer protection agency is likely ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A fight over an Obama administration proposal to create a new U.S. watchdog for consumer financial products threatened on Friday to derail progress toward tighter bank and capital market regulation, amid much posturing on both sides.The White House must ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bipartisan efforts on Capitol Hill to tighten financial regulation ground to a halt in the Senate on Friday, casting one of the top domestic policy priorities of the Obama administration in a stark political light.After months of public debate ...
From Huffington Post, we get Frank Luntz Pens Memo To Kill Financial Regulatory Reform. And Luntz points out that everyone seems to hate loopholes and lobbyists. CFPA Actually Not Disliked I assume people associated with the giant campaign ($2m from the Chamber ...
From Huffington Post, we get Frank Luntz Pens Memo To Kill Financial Regulatory Reform. And Luntz points out that everyone seems to hate loopholes and lobbyists. CFPA Actually Not Disliked I assume people associated with the giant campaign ($2m from the Chamber ...
The most significant roadblock to the enactment of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency might be the very woman who dreamed up the misbegotten idea in the first place: Friends and allies say Warren would love to be the first director of a ...
Having survived the Financial Panic of 2008, will we survive the cure? 1) the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency and 2) the President's proposed tax on non-deposit liabilities, ostensibly to recover bailout funds from the largest 50 banks, domestic and foreign. In ...
The Wall Street Journal reports that Sen. Christopher Dodd, (D-Conn.), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, is considering scrapping the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency in order to seal a compromise with Republicans on other aspects of financial reform. The article notes ...
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