Tag: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)

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CFPB and Reverse Mortgages: Let’s Not Throw Out the Baby with the Bath Water!

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August 5, 2012

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an agency created under the Dodd-Frank legislation (and whose creation I applaud), recently released a report on reverse mortgages.  The report is quite negative – in my view excessively negative – and the press summaries omit any of the nuances in the original document, which make it sound even…