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11 Aug 2010, 11:00 am by Jeff Sovern
by Jeff Sovern At the risk of being a nag, I'm wondering when the President will nominate the new director of the CFPB. [read post]
3 Oct 2010, 2:03 pm by Jeff Sovern
by Jeff Sovern The Oregonian's Personal Finance Columnist, Brent Hunsberger, has a column here on his experience with rebate cards. [read post]
3 Feb 2010, 11:02 am by Jeff Sovern
by Jeff Sovern A company claims to make it possible. [read post]
6 Oct 2009, 1:34 pm
by Jeff Sovern Today's Times includes two interesting consumer law pieces. [read post]
19 Jul 2010, 1:51 pm by Jeff Sovern
by Jeff Sovern  There's been a lot in the media about opposition to Elizabeth Warren to head the CFPB. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 5:57 am by Jeff Sovern
by Jeff Sovern Brian posted earlier a link to the Times article about debt collectors. [read post]
28 Oct 2007, 3:25 pm
by Jeff Sovern Three interesting recent pieces in the Times: Today's Times has an editorial, "Moving Ahead on Mortgages," that endorses the FDIC proposal to deal with the foreclosure crisis by freezing interest rates at the introductory teaser rate (I previously linked to the FDIC proposal here). [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]
14 Feb 2010, 11:11 am by Jeff Sovern
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]
26 Mar 2011, 8:03 am by Jeff Sovern
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]
19 Aug 2012, 10:14 am by Jeff Sovern
by Jeff Sovern About nine days ago, the Times ran a front-page article Shopper Alert: Price May Drop for You Alone. [read post]
31 May 2011, 1:23 pm by Jeff Sovern
by Jeff Sovern The prospect of Elizabeth Warren heading the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau continues to elicit discussion. [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
by Jeff Sovern Former Ninth Circuit Judge and Secretary of Education Shirley M. [read post]
25 Jan 2010, 9:38 am by Jeff Sovern
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]
28 Nov 2011, 5:45 pm by Jeff Sovern
by Jeff Sovern Earlier today Judge Rakoff refused to approve the SEC's settlement with Citigroup because the consent decree provided that Citigroup neither admitted nor denied the SEC's allegations. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 1:07 pm by Jeff Sovern
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]
6 Dec 2010, 5:56 pm by Jeff Sovern
by Jeff Sovern More and more anecdotal information is surfacing to supplement the empirical data indicating that consumers don't read disclosures. [read post]
31 Jul 2009, 9:31 am
by Jeff Sovern The 2009 edition of our Selected Consumer Statutes should be out in time for fall classes. [read post]
1 Jul 2007, 7:34 am
Check out Jeff Lipshaw's Dispelling New Law Professor Angst over at PrawfsBlawg. [read post]