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Mick mulvaney
Your student loan company just changed the terms of your agreement. What do you do next?
by
Janet Nguyen
Sep 20, 2018
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau helps you handle problems you’re having with a financial service or product. Here’s how that process works.
The nominee to lead the CFPB raises more questions about the agency’s future
Jun 18, 2018
The White House has tapped Mick Mulvaney’s replacement to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the consumer watchdog agency formed in the wake of the financial crisis. Kathy Kraninger is an associate director in the Office of Management and Budget, where Mulvaney has been her boss. Critics worry she has no experience with financial regulations […]
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is downgrading the office that protects student borrowers
by
Reema Khrais
May 10, 2018
Mick Mulvaney, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has been on a mission to dismantle and reshape the agency. In his latest move, he’s targeting the student loan division. He’s folding that office, which is meant to protect student loan borrowers from any wrongdoing, into a different unit focused on consumer education. […]
CFPB’s Mulvaney: We don’t have to run a Yelp for banks
Apr 25, 2018
The acting director of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, Mick Mulvaney, said Tuesday that he wants to cut off public access to a web-based database of complaints about financial companies. The American Bankers Association thinks that’s a fine idea. Consumer advocacy groups, not so much. Click the audio player above to hear the full story.
A fundamentally different American economy?
by
Kai Ryssdal
Apr 20, 2018
Also, the president seems determined to stick with bilateral trade deals.
CFPB head Mulvaney grilled on Capitol Hill
by
Ryan Kailath
Apr 11, 2018
Across the hallway from Mark Zuckerberg’s second round on Capitol Hill today there was another hearing taking place. This one was not quite so well-attended. Mick Mulvaney was there to be questioned on his role as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Democrats have been worried that Mulvaney is a little overly-friendly to […]
How much protection for consumers?
by
Ryan Kailath
Apr 11, 2018
Mick Mulvaney is set to testify before Congress on April 11 about how he’s managing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It might be hard to tell, but, the CFPB still there. Click the audio player above to hear the full story.
For public good, not for profit.
Mick Mulvaney doesn’t think the CFPB needs more money
by
Kai Ryssdal
and Sean McHenry
Jan 18, 2018
The acting director requested $0 for the bureau’s funding.
How much could a new leader reshape the CFPB?
Nov 27, 2017
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created in the wake of the financial crisis, is locked in a leadership struggle after its first director stepped down last week.
The federal budget, explained
by
Kimberly Adams
and Ben Hethcoat
Jul 31, 2017
Here's why there's always (always) so much drama.