One might be forgiven for believing that the Republicans have a death wish. No longer able to run on a credible national security platform, they appear to be positioning themselves on another four losing propositions: * refusing to lift the…
Tag Archive for Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
making mischief after the midterms?
by jennifer taub • • 6 Comments
On Wednesday, October 3, the day after the midterm elections, I spoke with Nancy Marshall Genzer of Marketplace Radio. Nancy asked me what impact the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives might have on the financial reform process.…
elizabeth warren and consumer financial protection
by lawrence baxter • • 2 Comments
According to ABC News, President Obama is about to appoint Elizabeth Warren to a position reporting directly to the President and residing in the Treasury Department. Her role will be setting up the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This is…
shilly shallying on elizabeth warren
by lawrence baxter • • 8 Comments
The Obama Administration has been steadily losing its luster in many areas, but perhaps nowhere more so than in the field of financial regulation, where leadership is more urgently needed than anywhere else. Today’s American Banker (proprietary content, unfortunately) carries…
so you think the insurance industry is well regulated?
by lawrence baxter • • 2 Comments
Today Bloomberg has published a major story on the rapidly growing practice by life insurance companies of providing “retained asset accounts” to beneficiaries instead of paying them out with a check or depositing the funds into an FDIC-insured bank account.…
