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    Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Hero or Goat?

    Americans have lost confidence in banks and credit card companies. Is government protection against predatory lending the answer? Will the CFPB make things better or worse?

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    By Warren Olney • Jul 19, 2012 • 50m Listen

    Americans have lost confidence in banks and credit card companies. Is government protection against predatory lending the answer? As the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau takes its first major action, will it make things better or worse? Also, the UN Security Council fails to act on Syria, and the National Guard's sponsorship of NASCAR racer Dale Earnhardt, Jr. has barely survived Congressional budget cutters. But the Army has dropped the Stewart-Haas team. What's sacred and what's not?

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Managing Producer, Greater LA

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      Director of Content, News

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