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28 Apr 2010, 10:36 am
Consumer Law & Policy Blog, The US News Rankings, Employment Statistics, and Consumer Protection, by Jeff Sovern (St. [read post]
27 Apr 2010, 2:04 pm
by Jeff Sovern In ranking law schools, US News takes into account the percentage of students who are employed at graduation and nine months after graduation. [read post]
25 Apr 2010, 5:41 pm
by Jeff Sovern I've been listening to the audio version of Simon Johnson and James Kwak's excellent book, 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown. [read post]
22 Apr 2010, 1:35 pm
by Jeff Sovern I was lucky enough to be invited to attend President Obama's speech at Cooper Union today on financial reform, thanks to the thoughtfullness of Norm Silber of Hofstra. [read post]
21 Apr 2010, 11:11 am
by Jeff Sovern Here's the column, and follow up posts can be found here and here. [read post]
18 Apr 2010, 2:14 pm
by Jeff Sovern Some comments on the Annual Conference of the American Council on Consumer Interests (ACCI), which I attended last week: ACCI seems to be made up largely of people who study consumer matters, including something called consumer science, financial planning, consumer behavior, and consumer education. [read post]
9 Apr 2010, 3:34 pm
by Jeff Sovern The rules in question extended the HOEPA loan protections to more subprime loans. [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 2:37 pm
by Jeff Sovern According to the News and Record of Greensboro, North Carolina, here's what one bank president said of the CFPA proposal: The consequences to the consumer will be equal or worse than what they’re trying to legislate away,” said Robert Braswell, president of Greensboro-based Carolina Bank. [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 2:55 pm
by Jeff Sovern Two recent developments illustrate anew the difference between opt-outs and opt-ins. [read post]
28 Mar 2010, 6:40 pm
by Jeff Sovern As we've noted in the past, Senator Dodd's bill subjects the proposed consumer financial protection bureau to a veto by a two-thirds vote of a Financial Stability Oversight Council. [read post]
Take consumer watchdog off the Fed's leash: Sen. Chris Dodd's bill will weaken a critical new agency
25 Mar 2010, 6:40 am
by Jeff Sovern I have an op-ed in today's New York Daily News on the placement of the consumer financial protection bureau within the Fed. [read post]
14 Mar 2010, 10:12 am
by Jeff Sovern A couple of reports on the Consumer Financial Protection Agency proposal that go against type: First. 19 current and former members of the Fed's Consumer Advisory Council, including our own Alan White, have joined in a letter supporting an independent CFPA and opposing housing it in any other federal agency, including the Fed. [read post]
12 Mar 2010, 5:20 pm
by Jeff Sovern I've been reading Dan Immergluck's fine book, Foreclosed: High-Risk Lending, Deregulation, and the Undermining of America's Mortgage Market (2009). [read post]
7 Mar 2010, 12:24 pm
Silber, a Professor of Law at Hofstra Law School, and Jeff Sovern , a Professor of Law at St. [read post]
1 Mar 2010, 5:53 pm
by Jeff Sovern The stated reason for housing the Consumer Financial Protection within the Department of the Treasury rather than operating it as an independent agency is the importance of safety and soundness regulation; the fear is that an independent CFPA might mandate conduct that would impair the safety and soundness of financial institutions. [read post]
28 Feb 2010, 7:05 pm
by Jeff Sovern Reports continue to emerge that Senator Dodd has proposed a compromise on the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. [read post]
23 Feb 2010, 1:10 pm
by Jeff Sovern Cross-posted from the New Deal 2.0 blog: Martin: How’d you do this year? [read post]
17 Feb 2010, 7:32 am
Then you must have missed this ad (which Jeff Sovern and Ed Mierzwinski blogged about last week), brought to you by the fine folks at the Committee for Truth in Politics: [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]
12 Feb 2010, 12:37 pm
by Jeff Sovern Ed Mierzwinski of the excellent US PIRG Consumer Blog has a mind-boggling piece in the Huffington Post about an ad opposing the financial regulatory bill the House passed in December that would, among other things, create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency. [read post]
