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22 Aug 2007, 11:22 am
Jeff Sovern blogged yesterday about the New York Times article. [read post]
6 Sep 2013, 6:50 am
The National Law Journal reports on a recent article by Jeff Sovern (St. [read post]
4 Nov 2014, 12:16 pm
Jeff Sovern (pictured), with whom readers may be familiar from our recent virtual symposium, has a new paper on SSRN, co-authored with three of his St. [read post]
24 Nov 2014, 8:00 am
Friend of the blog Jeff Sovern, and his co-authors are creating quite a stir with their article that has been topping the charts on SSRN, 'Whimsy Little Contracts' with Unexpected Consequences: An Empirical Analysis of Consumer Understanding of Arbitration Agreements.... [read post]
22 May 2012, 6:39 am
In this post a while back, Jeff Sovern discussed the sizeable drop in the number of law school applicants and predicted that some law schools would accept students with weaker credentials while others would shrink the size of their classes. [read post]
20 Apr 2009, 2:29 am
Jeff Sovern (St Johns) asks a provocative question: Do Law Students Get What They Pay for When Law Professors Blog? [read post]
16 May 2012, 2:33 pm
by Jeff Sovern Quite a bit, according to Bloomberg BusinessWeek. [read post]
16 Mar 2009, 9:18 am
by Jeff Sovern The unemployed who receive benefits in the form of debit cards often pay fees for the privilege, according to a CNN report. [read post]
19 Dec 2007, 5:32 am
Following up on Jeff Sovern's excellent post on the Federal Reserve's proposed rules on predatory lending, here is some more stuff: (1) the proposed rule itself (which runs 163 pages); and (2) a Washington post story on the proposed rules. [read post]
10 Mar 2007, 8:07 am
by Jeff Sovern I have previously blogged here and here about how credit bureaus lack sufficient incentives to prevent identity theft. [read post]
17 Jun 2011, 11:42 am
by Jeff Sovern I (and plenty of others) have written in the past about consumer disclosures that haven't worked. [read post]
7 Feb 2011, 12:47 pm
by Jeff Sovern The National Law Journal has an interesting article on the response of lawyers representing businesses to the CFPB, headlined "Agenda Unknown" (I can't post a link because it requires a subscription). [read post]
18 Jun 2012, 12:20 pm
by Jeff Sovern A recent report by the Pew Charitable Trust, Still Risky: An Update on the Safety and Transparency of Checking Accounts, found that the median length of bank checking account disclosures among the banks included within the study ran 69 pages. The response by Consumer Bankers Association president Richard Hunt in this MSNBC report: "We don't like it. [read post]
22 Oct 2011, 3:45 pm
by Jeff Sovern I just finished listening to the audio version of Ron Suskind's Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President. [read post]
13 Mar 2011, 4:00 pm
by Jeff Sovern The letters arrive every January and February with "Important Tax Information Enclosed" written on the envelopes. [read post]
5 Mar 2007, 7:42 am
by Jeff Sovern Over the weekend, Brian Wolfman blogged about the proposed Interagency Guidance on Subprime Mortgage Lending. [read post]
9 Feb 2010, 3:28 pm
by Jeff Sovern I am convinced that one reason the CFPA has run into trouble in the Senate is that it's an issue that can't easily be boiled down to a soundbite, and hence generates little passion. [read post]
5 Jul 2012, 2:16 pm
by Jeff Sovern Here. [read post]
3 Oct 2011, 2:32 pm
by Jeff Sovern For those who haven't read enough about the Bank of America's monthly debit card fee (coverage here and here, for example), PBS broadcast a debate between the Los Angeles Times columnist David Lazarus and Consumer Bankers Association president Richard Hunt. [read post]
16 Feb 2007, 1:06 pm
by Jeff Sovern A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson blogged about a credit union president's warning that the new statute regulating loans to service members and their dependents "might well be called the death to lending to service members act. [read post]
