Republicans Try To Protect Bankers When Republicans can’t win a national election, they go the judicial route where voters cannot tamper with results. Their latest trick is to get a federal circuit court to rule that presidential “recess appointments” are unconstitutional. The Republicans picked a circuit court with all three judges appointed by George Bush. […]

Consumer Manifesto’s Presidential Endorsement
by Charles Selden on November 4, 2012 in Breaking News
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Banks To Be Protected From Consumers
by Charles Selden on April 17, 2012 in Breaking News, Words Matter
Banks to collect fees before credit cards are used The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is changing its mission. The agency was formed in 2009 to protect consumers from exorbitant—and often hidden—fees. That role posed a problem for those banks that now want to sign up consumers with poor credit card histories. Solution? Change the Consumer […]

OBAMA THROWS WARREN UNDER THE BUS
by Charles Selden on July 18, 2011 in Newsmakers
Financial Services Industry Protected From Consumers Whew! It was a close call. The financial services industry almost got the regulator they feared the most: Elizabeth Warren as Chief of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). She could have been the end of financial services as we know it and are abused by it. She wanted […]

NOCERA ON ELIZABETH WARREN
by Charles Selden on June 13, 2011 in Breaking News
As Consumer Protection Burns, The President Dithers Why doesn’t the president speak up for Elizabeth Warren? He chose her to design the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau because of her credentials. It was not a political appointment. Financial services lobbyists are apoplectic about the possibility of genuine consumer protection. Warren is their enemy and her destruction […]

SUROWIECKI ON ELIZABETH WARREN
by Charles Selden on June 9, 2011 in Breaking News
A Must-Read For All Consumers It’s hard to choose which insight to quote from James Surowiecki’s latest The Financial Page piece, “The Warren Court” in The New Yorker. He explains why Elizabeth Warren is at once the most popular and most hated person in Washington. If you do not know of Surowiecki’s bi-weekly single page […]
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