Credit Conditions In The Absence Of Consumer Protection
baselinescenario.com 8/10/2009 — Even some of our most sophisticated commentators doubt a link between consumer protection and any macroeconomic outcomes. Consumer protection, in this view, is microeconomics and quite different from macroeconomic issues (such as the speed and nature of our economic recovery). Officially ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Banks Discover Consumer Protection Too Big to Fail
hf-implode.com 11/4/2009 — "“Banks have lost their influence on consumer issues,” says Brian Gardner, an analyst monitoring Washington’s impact on financial services for the brokerage firm Keefe Bruyette & Woods Inc. Gardner says banks will retain their clout when it comes to more complex financial issues such as ...

Obama’s speech: The good news
blogs.reuters.com 9/15/2009 — A couple of bits jumped out at me from Barack Obama's prepared speech today. First is his explanation of why the Consumer Financial Protection Agency is so necessary:

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 ...

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  

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 ...

Consumer Protection Elitists? Hardly
economistsview.typepad.com 7/14/2009 — Richard Green takes on Peter Wallison's arguments against establishing a Financial Product Safety Commission: Peter Wallison calls Consumer Protection Elitist : He writes : Traditionally, consumer protection in the United States has focused ...

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 ...