Wendy Edelberg is the director of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution and was chief economist of the ...

The cost of the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC) should not be forgotten during a backlash against the burden of financial ...

The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all its work, effectively ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been shut down by President Trump, at least for this week and possibly much ...

The agency has been a target of conservatives since President Barack Obama pushed to include it in the 2010 financial reform legislation that followed the 2007-2008 financial crisis.

Rohit Chopra, the former director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), argued Monday that shutting down the agency is “begging for another financial crisis,” as the Trump ...

White House orders Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to halt nearly all work, effectively shutting down the agency protecting consumers since the 2008 financial crisis.

The agency has been a target of conservatives since President Barack Obama created it in 2011 following the 2007-2008 financial crisis. The email also ordered the bureau to “cease all ...