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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]
14 Sep 2015, 4:04 am
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3 Jun 2010, 9:03 am
Jeff Sovern has prepared a nice powerpoint summary of the two bills creating a new federal Consumer Financial Protection Agency. [read post]
26 Apr 2022, 3:24 am
Professor Jeff Sovern (St. [read post]
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]
19 Aug 2012, 10:14 am
by Jeff Sovern About nine days ago, the Times ran a front-page article Shopper Alert: Price May Drop for You Alone. [read post]
3 Feb 2010, 11:02 am
by Jeff Sovern A company claims to make it possible. [read post]
27 May 2011, 2:18 pm
by Jeff Sovern In the continuing battle over the role of states in consumer protection, two developments this week merit attention here. [read post]
28 Nov 2011, 5:45 pm
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]
6 Dec 2010, 5:56 pm
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]
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]
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]
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]
