Tag: CFPB
Mulvaney’s in, bankers win, and Trump shafts Americans again
Donald Trump was hostile to the CFPB from the start, and he said this as he shoehorned Mulvaney into the director’s chair.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director announces resignation
Richard Cordray has become the latest high-ranking U.S. official to step aside in frustration with the Trump administration.
The CFPB protects us from bad banks; Republicans want to kill...
The CFPB isn’t being targeted because it has failed. It has been targeted because it is succeeding. It must be defended at all costs.
Consumers Lose, Wall Street Wins, in Right-Wing Court Ruling
The battles to rein in Wall Street fraud and resist the right-wing assault on an independent judiciary are far from over.
You Used to Be Able to Take Them to Court
The CFPB is working to protect you as a consumer from forced arbitration clauses in financial contracts.
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The unseen cost of cigarette pollution: Billions in environmental damage
The yearly economic cost of cigarette plastic waste amounts to approximately $26 billion.
Billionaire Heirs: The accelerating $5.2 trillion wealth transfer
Without robust wealth and inheritance taxes the children and grandchildren of today's billionaires will dominate our future politics, economy, culture, and philanthropy."
Make America fascist again (MAFA!)
Is this the future If Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office?
COP28 president challenges science: Claims ‘no science’ behind fossil fuel phase-out
At the heart of the climate debate, COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber's controversial stance on fossil fuels sparks a global outcry, challenging the core objectives of the climate summit.
“The madness of militarism,” the 2023 Ellsberg lecture by Norman Solomon
Norman Solomon reflects on 'the madness of militarism' in the Ellsberg Lecture