Press Play with Madeleine Brand
What has the CFPB accomplished?
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created after the 2008 financial crisis as a way to keep lenders, banks, and other businesses in check.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readThe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created after the 2008 financial crisis as a way to keep lenders, banks, and other businesses in check. Over the past six years, it’s aimed to make sure consumers are treated fairly when it comes to credit cards, student loans, payday loans and mortgages.
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What American pop has to do with race, love, sex and religion- 0:00The legal fight over who will run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- 9:04What has the CFPB accomplished?You’re reading this
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- 28:47'Good Booty:' A book about music, love, sex and religion
The full episode
2 of 4What American pop has to do with race, love, sex and religion- 0:00The legal fight over who will run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- 9:04What has the CFPB accomplished?You’re reading this
- 17:30How Wall Street created a housing disaster for millions of Mexicans
- 28:47'Good Booty:' A book about music, love, sex and religion