- April 28, 2016Nearly five years since it officially opened, a new dark money group is taking aim at the agency tasked to protect consumers — and no one has any idea who's behind it.
- December 9, 2015The progressives that Clinton is clearly trying to win over need to keep pressing for bolder reforms.
- July 21, 2015This week marks the fifth anniversary of Dodd-Frank, the complicated legislation designed to reform Wall Street after the financial crisis. Five years later, the debate still rages.
- September 18, 2014Disgusted by the practices of debt collectors, Rolling Jubilee, an Occupy offshoot, just got rid of $4 million of school loans for thousands of students.
- September 3, 2014 | Updated September 8, 2014Video from the sold-out event last week at CUNY in New York, featuring the Massachusetts senator and the Nobel-prize winning economist, is now online.
- July 30, 2014According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, these financial institutions draw the most complaints.
- July 24, 2014Republicans got their way and car dealers were exempted from Consumer Financial Protection Bureau oversight. A new investigation finds that giant loans are going to poor people with bad credit.
- March 15, 2014The watchdog agency has issued dozens of protections shielding consumers from shady practices by mortgage lenders, student loan servicers and credit card companies.
- February 4, 2014Sen. Elizabeth Warren has endorsed a proposal for the postal service to offer basic financial services, which could save the poor billions and fill its own budget hole.
- October 27, 2013Academics get paid by financial firms to testify against Dodd-Frank regulations. What’s wrong with this picture?