Mar 15, 2013

Friday Roundup, March 15th

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by Richard Reinsch / 0 Comments

Filed Under: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Coolidge, Edmund Burke, Freedom of Religion, Inflation

The current Liberty Law Talk is with Amity Shlaes on Calvin Coolidge. There are many impressive elements in Shlaes’ new biography of the thirtieth president. Of note is Coolidge’s discipline and refusal to place tax dollars at the service

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Jan 21, 2013

Policy-Based Evidence-Making at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

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by Todd Zywicki / 1 Comment

Filed Under: Ability to Pay and Qualified Mortgages rules, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Dodd-Frank, Plain-Vanilla products rules

New mortgage rules released by the CFPB show why heightened oversight is necessary.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is one of the most powerful and least accountable regulatory agencies in American history. Immune from budgetary oversight by Congress and headed …

Aug 10, 2012

The Revenge of Richard Nixon: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Spreads Its Tentacles

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by Todd Zywicki / 17 Comments

Filed Under: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Elizabeth Warren, Federal Reserve, Jonathan Macey, Regulatory Capture, Regulatory Overreach, Richard Cordray

Last month marked the one-year anniversary of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). At the time the Bureau was created I predicted that it would be a bureaucratic train wreck: an institution that is almost perfectly designed to manifest all …