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Consumer Financial Product Agency

…current bank regulators, then it can be smothered in the crib. For decades, the Federal Reserve and the bank regulators (the OCC and the OTS) have had the legal authority…

Predatory borrowing

I have pulled two quotes from comments from a reader that state a view that might not occur to us. They are out of context, but I think might have…

The contrarian addiction

…in policy. The CDC only issues recommendations. Implementation is voluntary and left to the states. The Surgeon General occupies the medical bully pulpit, but otherwise lacks authority. The FDA, on…