Congress Gets Financial Protection Agency Plan
nytimes.com 6/30/2009 — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration sent Congress a detailed proposal on Tuesday to create a consumer protection agency responsible for financial products, a move that is the first shot in a heated battle with banks and other financial institutions ...

Why Banks Should Support a Consumer Financial Protection Agency
economix.blogs.nytimes.com 7/23/2009 — In a food contamination scare, people buy less of that food until the government assures them that it understands the problem and the contamination will not happen again. The same goes for a scare over the dangers of financial products, an economist ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act Is Flawed
online.wsj.com 7/23/2009 — RICHARD A. POSNER Will the epitaph of the Obama administration be “too much, too soon, too costly”? Among worrisome signs is its proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act of 2009. The agency would have regulatory authority over retail ...

Elizabeth Warren Defends The Consumer Financial Protection Agency
dailybail.com 8/4/2009 — Harvard Professor and Head of the Congressional Oversight Panel for TARP, Dr. Elizabeth Warren explains why America needs a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, CFPA. (July 16, 2009, Cambridge, Massachusetts) Watch  

Sen. Dodd urges consumer finance protection agency (Reuters)
news.yahoo.com 6/13/2009 — Reuters - U.S. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd on Thursday called for creation of an independent consumer protection agency as part of wider reforms to the U.S. financial regulatory structure.

Waiting For The Big Push: Selling The Consumer Protection Agency For Financial Products
baselinescenario.com 7/13/2009 — In mid-March, the administration proposed that toxic assets could and would be safely removed from banks balance sheets. We were skeptical , and the the PPIP now seems to have slipped into irrelevance ( loans ; securities ). But the administration still put an impressive effort into ...

Three Problematic Truths About the Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act of 2009 | FinReg21|Reforming Financial Services Regulation in the 21st Century
finreg21.com 9/17/2009 — The creation of a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency (“CFPA”) is a very bad idea and should be rejected. The proposal is not salvageable and cannot be improved in substance or in form. The proposal is premised on a fundamental misunderstanding ...

Consumer Protection: Reverse Convertibles
rortybomb.wordpress.com 6/18/2009 — Since we’ve already run new stress tests out of this webpage, I’m going to go ahead and run the Consumer Protection Agency out of the Rortybomb Blog while President Obama and team continue to get the legislation worked out. (If I keep ...

Congressional Opponents of Consumer Financial Protection Bill Got Big Money from Wall Street Interests
hf-implode.com 10/27/2009 — On Thursday, the House Financial Services Committee approved H.R. 3126, which would create a new executive branch agency to oversee consumer financial protections and is known as the Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act. Opponents of the legislative proposal received an average of 20 ...

Financial Consumer Agency of Canada
fcac-acfc.gc.ca 7/21/2009 — Symbol of the Government of Canada maple leaf Financial Consumer Agency of Canada www.fcac-acfc.gc.ca Skip to content | Skip to institutional links Common menu bar links Fran ais Home Contact Us Help Search canada.gc.ca Home Institutional links | ...

The president's rocky fortnight: Down in the valley — The Economist: Full print edition 10/8/2009
The man who can is suddenly looking unsure of himself BARACK OBAMA ran an impressively disciplined presidential campaign. He has presided over a notably cohesive White House. But in the past fortnight things have started to go wrong. His latest ...

Islam: A shifting locus — The Economist: Full print edition 10/8/2009
New data on the second-biggest faith WHEN Barack Obama made his appeal, back in June, for a new understanding between America and Islam, the venue he chose was Egypt—for some obvious reasons. It is the most populous of the Arab nations ...

Youngstown, Ohio: A young town again — The Economist: Full print edition 10/8/2009
A blighted city may be (slowly) recovering THE battle for America’s future, so Barack Obama said earlier this year, “will be fought and won in places like Elkhart and Detroit, Goshen and Pittsburgh, South Bend [and] Youngstown”. Or ...

Defending Manhattan: Extending the ring of steel — The Economist: Full print edition 10/8/2009
New York expands its counterterrorism monitoring system BARACK OBAMA visited the National Counter-terrorism Centre in Virginia on October 6th to heap thanks on the organisation for frustrating al-Qaeda’s tricks. He praised the co-ordination ...