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Joseph Lawler The Washington Examiner 5/17/2014 Despite being a new officeholder of a relatively obscure federal agency, Mel Watt drew a strong reaction for his speech Tuesday by signaling that the federal government will increase its role in helping more Americans buy houses. For now, credit standards for home loans remain tight. But Watt’s speech […] May 17th, 2014 | Tags: bailouts, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Mel Watt, mortgages | Category: Banking and finance, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac | Comments are closed
Richard Pollock The Washington Examiner 9/13/2013 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau officials are seeking to monitor four out of every five U.S. consumer credit card transactions this year — up to 42 billion transactions – through a controversial data-mining program, according to documents obtained by the Washington Examiner. A CFPB strategic planning document for fiscal years […] September 13th, 2013 | Tags: Anti-trust, bankruptcy, checks and balances, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), credit cards, data-mining, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, mortgages, Rep. Maxine Waters, Richard Cordray | Category: 4th Amendment, Banking and finance, Congress, Department of Justice, Right to Privacy | Comments are closed
Stephen Dinan The Washington Times 7/17/2013 A third federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that President Obama violated the Constitution last year when he made recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, adding more weight to the case as it goes before the Supreme Court in the justices’ next session. The Fourth U.S. Circuit Court […] July 17th, 2013 | Tags: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Albert Diaz, Judge Allyson K. Duncan, Judge Clyde H. Hamilton, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), recess appointments | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, SCOTUS, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Judicial Watch 6/27/2013 Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained records from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) revealing that the agency has spent millions of dollars for the warrantless collection and analysis of Americans’ financial transactions. The documents also reveal that CFPB contractors may be required to share the information with “additional government […] June 30th, 2013 | Tags: "czar" Elizabeth Warren, Argus Information & Advisory Services, Bret Baier, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), credit cards, Deloitte Consulting, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Edward Snowden, Elizabeth Warren, Experian, financial transactions, interest rates, Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Richard Cordray, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, warrantless surveillance, Xiaoling Ang | Category: Banking and finance, corruption, legislation, Right to Privacy, US Constitution | Comments are closed
ReasonTV YouTube 4/3/2012 “Ben Bernanke fancies himself as a student of the Great Depression,” says renowned investment broker, global strategist, author, and Austrian economist Peter Schiff, “but… if he were my student he would have gotten an F.” During a lecture entitled “The Fed Unspun: The Other Side of the Story”, Schiff responded to […] April 4th, 2012 | Tags: Ben Bernanke, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Federal Reserve Modernization Act, FreedomWorks, gold standard, H.R. 4180, housing crisis, Peter Schiff, Rep. Kevin Brady, S. 2247, Sen. Mike Lee, The Great Depression, U.S. Dollar | Category: "Stimulus" program, Banking and finance, Congress, Economy, Fannie Mae, Federal Reserve, Freddie Mac, Video | Comments are closed
Ed Morrissey HotAir.com 2/17/2012 When Senate Republicans blocked the confirmation of Richard Cordray to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, they did so in protest of the ambiguous and open-ended power granted to CFPB by the previous Democratic-controlled Congress. Barack Obama blasted Republicans for obstructionism, defended Cordray as a mainstream, responsible choice to lead the […] February 17th, 2012 | Tags: bureaucrats, collection agencies, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), credit bureaus, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Equifax, Experian, recess appointments, Richard Cordray, TransUnion | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, federal regulations | Comments are closed
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