Tag: CFPB

With its fate hanging in the balance, it’s a good time to remember the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau arose out of subprime mortgage scams like these. A mother who moved her young children out of coveted government-subsidized housing after a loan broker told her she could afford a house. Foreclosure ensued immediately. A woman wanted…

Judges make clear that any decision regarding CFPB has no implications for mandatory spending programs. I received an email recently regarding a 2022 decision by a three-judge panel for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The decision found the funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) unconstitutional because the agency gets its money outside of the annua…