Tag Archive for ‘consumer financial protection agency’
Hear Me Speak at the Cleveland City Club
An alternative title for this post might be: Presidents, World Leaders, and Me. I happily said yes when I was invited to address the Cleveland City Club — and then I received a more formal invitation in the mail that listed some of its past speakers. The City Club was having me for its Friday [...]
Poverty, Inc. Asks, ‘Why Us?’
The subprime credit card issuer charging interest rates of 25 percent or more. All those subprime auto lenders charging 20 or 22 or 25 percent a year in interest for a car loan. Others in the poverty industry. All are saying the same thing: We didn’t cause the Great Recession of 2008 so why is [...]
The Pentagon versus Car Dealers
My first blog post for the Huffington Post: Senator Sam Brownback (photo), a Kansas Republican, writes an amendment exempting auto dealers from a proposed new consumer financial protection bureau, Barack Obama denounces Brownback’s amendment as a “special loophole.” Meanwhile, the bigger worry for car dealers isn’t so much the President as the military. The [...]
