The beneficiaries of a weakened CFPB are clear: big banks, payday lenders, debt collectors, and financial institutions that ...

Alternative options if you're the victim of unfair and abusive practices as the consumer watchdog 'winds down.' ...

Ever since the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened in 2011 with a mandate to regulate financial institutions, its detractors have tried to eliminate it. They have questioned its ...

This authority ought to be preserved. The CFPB’s short history tells a broader story about government bureaucracy that officials at the Department of Government Efficiency ought to keep in mind ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: March 9 The Washington Post says Americans need the CFPB Ever since the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened in 2011 with a ...

Controversy Over the U.S. Crypto Reserve Plan Trump’s recently announced plan to create a U.S. crypto reserve has caused a ...

Last spring and summer, The Fulcrum published a 30-part series on Project 2025. Now that Donald Trump's second term The Fulcrum has started Part 2 of the series has commenced. Project 2025, the ...

unprecedented in American history, to unliterally eliminate an agency that Congress established and that the Supreme Court upheld last year," the union said. The union has asked for a temporary ...

The CFPB has extended the comment period for its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on data brokers until April 2, 2025; the comment period had been ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... Founded in 2010 by Senator Elizabeth Warren, the ...