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14 Sep 2015, 4:04 am
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26 Apr 2022, 3:24 am
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18 Mar 2007, 5:24 pm
Jeff Sovern at the Public Citizen blog notes a New York Times story that Democratic leaders will be pushing a bill "would give borrowers and others the ability to sue the Wall Street firms that package those mortgages and then... [read post]
20 Jul 2016, 4:54 am
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14 Jul 2011, 5:11 am
Jeff Sovern posted earlier on today's House Oversight & Government Reform hearing on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. [read post]
3 Oct 2010, 2:03 pm
by Jeff Sovern The Oregonian's Personal Finance Columnist, Brent Hunsberger, has a column here on his experience with rebate cards. [read post]
3 Sep 2012, 5:38 pm
by Jeff Sovern We have blogged many times about the Republican call for the CFPB to have a commission-structure, rather than a director (see, for example, here). [read post]
6 Aug 2009, 6:58 am
by Jeff Sovern The Times has another article today about the tug of war between existing federal regulators and the Obama administration over the desirability of establishing a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency or allowing the existing agencies to keep their consumer protection jurisdiction, Geithner Takes Regulators to Task on Turf Battle. [read post]
27 Sep 2010, 9:14 am
by Jeff Sovern Former Ninth Circuit Judge and Secretary of Education Shirley M. [read post]
14 Feb 2010, 11:11 am
by Jeff Sovern Bob Tedeschi's Mortgages Column in today's Times reports on the effect of the new RESPA disclosure regs, which went ino effect January 1. [read post]
25 Jan 2010, 9:38 am
by Jeff Sovern Yesterday I blogged about how the Fed's Commentary directs lenders making Truth in Lending disclosures for adjustable loans to assume that interest rates will remain the same as they are at the date of closing. [read post]
21 Mar 2007, 8:25 am
by Jeff Sovern I have previously blogged here about the 2006 amendment to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which added a new subsection (e) to 15 U.S.C. [read post]
6 Oct 2009, 1:34 pm
by Jeff Sovern Today's Times includes two interesting consumer law pieces. [read post]
13 Jun 2012, 2:22 pm
by Jeff Sovern The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has long been the poster-child for an agency captured by the entities it regulates--in this case, national banks. Thus, when states enacted anti-predatory lending statutes, the OCC declared them pre-empted as to national banks. [read post]
19 Jul 2010, 1:51 pm
by Jeff Sovern There's been a lot in the media about opposition to Elizabeth Warren to head the CFPB. [read post]
2 Jul 2009, 5:56 pm
by Jeff Sovern Some interesting articles in the New York Times today: One article, Bank Fees Rise as Lenders Try to Offset Losses, may shed some light on the claim that banks are raising credit card fees in response to passage of the Credit CARD Act. [read post]
31 May 2011, 1:23 pm
by Jeff Sovern The prospect of Elizabeth Warren heading the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau continues to elicit discussion. [read post]
26 Mar 2011, 8:03 am
by Jeff Sovern That's the headline of an article in today's Times about how cell phones enable cell phone companies to know the location of consumers where ever they go, something of which consumers may not be aware. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 1:07 pm
by Jeff Sovern I just finished the audio version of Neil Barofsky's book Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 5:57 am
by Jeff Sovern Brian posted earlier a link to the Times article about debt collectors. [read post]
