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The Daily Signal covers Consumer Financial Protection Bureau news with reporting and analysis on financial regulations, enforcement actions, constitutional challenges, and conservative criticism of the agency’s structure, funding, and regulatory approach to consumer lending and banking.
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    Q&A: Former CFPB Employee on Why There Aren’t More Republicans in the Agency

    Ron Rubin, a lawyer and writer who used to work for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, discusses the nature of the federal agency with The Daily Signal’s Genevieve Wood. What follows is an edited transcript. Wood: There’s been a lot of controversy around this Consumer Protection Financial Bureau. The head of this agency, the director, Mr….
    Genevieve Wood
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    Mulvaney Freezes Hiring Amid Fight for Control at the CFPB

    Recently appointed acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Mick Mulvaney instituted a temporary hiring freeze at the Obama-era regulatory body Monday but denied charges that he plans to dismantle the agency. The hiring freeze as well as a freeze on any new regulations or guidance will last for 30 days. Mulvaney’s first day…
    Jack Crowe
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    CFPB Deputy Director Is Challenging the President’s Authority. Here’s Why Her Arguments Are Flawed.

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been a political hot potato since the day it was created as part of the legislative response to the 2008 financial crisis. A brainchild of then-Harvard law professor (now U.S. senator) Elizabeth Warren, the bureau was established in 2010 as an independent agency through the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform…
    John G. Malcolm
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