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20 Jul 2011, 1:57 pm
by Jeff Sovern It's tough to keep up with the coverage of the Bureau this week, but here are a few noteworthy pieces. [read post]
23 Dec 2007, 6:34 pm
by Jeff Sovern The Fed's role in regulating subprime lending--or not--continues to draw comment. [read post]
31 Jan 2008, 1:28 pm
by Jeff Sovern On Tuesday, the Times reported here about a study that confirms what many consumer lawyers already know about the elderly. [read post]
12 Apr 2011, 11:46 am
by Jeff sovern Here. [read post]
6 Nov 2009, 4:01 pm
by Jeff Sovern Earlier this week, as the Times reported, the House passed a bill to move up the effective date of some of the Credit CARD Act provisions to December 1. [read post]
21 Feb 2012, 4:54 pm
by Jeff Sovern Here. [read post]
2 May 2022, 3:55 pm
In a new blog post published on the Consumer Law & Policy Blog, Professor Jeff Sovern advocates very strongly in support of interpreting the “unfairness” prong of UDAAP to encompass discrimination in connection with credit and non-credit consumer financial products and services offered by banks and other persons covered by the Consumer Financial Protection Act (CFPA). [read post]
24 Jul 2011, 8:57 am
by Jeff Sovern H.R. 1315, the so-called Consumer Financial Protection Safety and Soundness Improvement Act passed by the House last week displays an extraordinary number of seemingly neutral "improvements" that would collectively have the effect of crippling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or even tipping it over to an agency that would be more protective of banks than consumers. [read post]
18 Feb 2009, 8:38 am
by Jeff Sovern I've been listening to the audio version of Stephen Baker's fascinating book The Numerati, and while I'm not done with it, I thought I would blog about some of what I've encountered in it thus far, as well as some thoughts it's prompted. [read post]
3 Sep 2009, 11:20 am
by Jeff Sovern Last winter, I bought a computer for my daughter. [read post]
8 Sep 2012, 4:29 am
by Jeff Sovern A fellow named Eric Grover had a piece atacking the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the Washington Times this week titled "CFPB’s unchecked power. [read post]
15 Jul 2008, 7:42 pm
by Jeff Sovern Here is the article in today's Times on the new Fed rules that Alan blogged about yesterday. [read post]
25 May 2011, 8:46 am
by Jeff Sovern I have been consumed by other matters recently (chiefly, grading), but I did want to thank Deepak Gupta for his work on the Blog. [read post]
20 May 2022, 5:56 am
Recently, Professor Jeff Sovern and I exchanged views on whether the CFPB could (or should) add arbitration rulemaking to its regulatory agenda. [read post]
17 Nov 2014, 12:35 pm
Levin Jeff Sovern, through his Consumer Law & Policy Blog, recently responded to our criticism that the St. [read post]
8 Jul 2010, 4:33 pm
by Jeff Sovern Berin Michael Szoka of The Progress & Freedom Foundation has written The Dangerous Implications of a 'Right' to Free Credit Scores . [read post]
10 Mar 2009, 6:05 pm
by Jeff Sovern Last week, on March 3, the Times ran a front page article, You're Dead? [read post]
19 Mar 2008, 6:12 pm
by Jeff Sovern In my post of yesterday, drawn from the Pittsbugh Post-Gazette essay, I mentioned how Alan Greenspan's book, The Age of Turbulence, doesn't address predatory lending. [read post]
10 Oct 2009, 10:45 am
by Jeff Sovern Joe Nocera has a terrific column in today's Times, Have Banks No Shame? [read post]
3 Jan 2012, 3:47 pm
by Jeff Sovern Andrew Kahr, a principal in CreditBuilders LLC, had a column in the American Banker recently titled Who Really Needs the CFPB? [read post]
