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29 Jan 2012, 12:37 pm
by Jeff Sovern Story here. [read post]
24 Jan 2012, 1:01 pm
by Jeff Sovern During last night's debate, Representative Paul seemed to attribute the foreclosure crisis partly to the Community Reinvestment Act when he said: Well, the government . . . [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]
2 Jan 2012, 7:34 am
by Jeff SovernIsn’t it great that Occupy Wall Street is pretty much over? [read post]
31 Dec 2011, 5:23 pm
by Jeff Sovern On Tuesday, the Times printed an editorial, Clearer Bank Account Terms at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/opinion/clearer-checking-account-terms.html. [read post]
12 Dec 2011, 10:40 am
by Jeff Sovern He said it on Meet the Press. [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 12:57 pm
by Jeff Sovern Ed Mierzwinski and NASDAQ/Dow Jones Newswires have reported that opponents of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have attached riders to appropriations bills to subject CFPB funding to the congressional appropriations process rather than the current system under which the Bureau gets funding outside that process, as is true of other bank regulators like the OCC. [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]
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]
12 Oct 2011, 5:03 am
Schwartz of Pullman & Conley, LLC b Consumer Law & Policy Coordinators, Deepak Gupta and Jeff Sovern Contracts Prof Blog By Jeremy Telman CorpGov.net By James McRitchie Corporate & Securities Law Blog By Sheppard Mullin Corporate Compliance Insights TheCorporateCounsel.net By Broc Romanek and Dave Lynn Corporate Finance Law Blog By Davis Wright Tremaine Corporate Law and Governance By Robert Goddard, a U.K. based Senior Lecturer at Aston Law, part of Aston Business… [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]
2 Sep 2011, 12:13 pm
by Jeff Sovern I am pleased to report that Thomson/West has just published the 2011 edition of Selected Consumer Statutes, a compilation of consumer statutes, regulations, and similar materials on consumer law. [read post]
22 Aug 2011, 9:58 pm
The following chart (provided by my colleague Jeff Sovern, prepared by his assistant Ourania Sdogos) provides some insight into what drives demand for law school, and suggests that law schools might be testing the limits of inelasticity. [read post]
10 Aug 2011, 1:15 pm
by Jeff Sovern Mark W. [read post]
5 Aug 2011, 8:05 am
” [Jeff Sovern, CL&P] Villanova keeps mum after embarrassing revelations [Inquirer] Tags: Baltimore, banks, colleges and universities, John Roberts, law schools Related posts June 27 roundup (2) Fall speaking schedule (1) Canada: “Human Rights Tribunal rules it can name university deans” (4) April 10 roundup (4) Yale adopts submissive posture in Title-IX-vs. [read post]
2 Aug 2011, 11:31 am
by Jeff Sovern I have been remiss in not drawing readers' attention to the very interesting and informative Ballard Spahr blog on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau CFPB Monitor, which started up last month. [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]
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]
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]
13 Jul 2011, 12:00 pm
by Jeff Sovern The Sunday Times Haggler column took on lead generation companies in the context of Seattle emergency locksmiths. [read post]
