Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) invited tech billionaire Elon Musk to testify at an informal hearing focusing on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau next week, as the Trump adviser ...

Kneecapping the consumer financial protection agency would do much to enable fraud, and next to nothing to reduce federal expenditures. Congressional Republicans are now carrying the sword that would ...

Rohit Chopra is a former protege of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a McKinsey alum and current Harvard Kennedy fellow.

The CFPB was obviously supposed to pull a lot that together, but its current uncertain state obviously leaves a lot in flux," said Todd Zywicki.

Here’s what the agency has been doing for U.S. consumers since it was created in 2011—and what could change if the current administration continues to scale back its budget, staff, and mission By ...

Protesters rally outside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on February 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. Senior Correspondent For a long time, Misty Castaneda had terrible credit. Even though ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the latest government agency potentially on President Donald Trump’s chopping block. Not only did Trump fire Rohit Chopra, who headed the independent agency ...

The billionaire Elon Musk and the California venture capitalist Marc Andreessen have started a debate about the role of government that we should be having — but it might not go the way they would ...

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Senate Democrats plan to force Republicans to go on record about the Trump administration's dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...

"That's it!" the girl exclaimed. "That's what happened! That's what my family’s big secret was!" In Economics class, my seniors were learning about the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession.