Watchdog : how protecting consumers can save our families, our economy, and our democracy /
Cordray, Richard,
Watchdog : how protecting consumers can save our families, our economy, and our democracy / Richard Cordray. - New York : Oxford University Press, [2020] - xiii, 276 pages ; 23 cm
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Growing problems in the increasingly one-sided consumer finance markets blew up the economy in 2008. In the aftermath, Congress created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Using stories of individual consumers, Watchdog shows how the Bureau quickly became a powerful force for good, suing big banks for cheating or deceiving consumers, putting limits on predatory lenders, simplifying mortgage paperwork, safeguarding the mortgage market and the economy, and stepping in to help solve problems raised by individual consumers. It tells a hopeful story of how our system can be reformed by putting government back on the side of the people, to strengthen our families, safeguard the marketplace, and establish a new baseline of fairness in our democratic society"--
9780197502990
2019042464
United States. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
United States--Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.-- --
HG181 / .C69 2020
381.3 / C796
Watchdog : how protecting consumers can save our families, our economy, and our democracy / Richard Cordray. - New York : Oxford University Press, [2020] - xiii, 276 pages ; 23 cm
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Growing problems in the increasingly one-sided consumer finance markets blew up the economy in 2008. In the aftermath, Congress created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Using stories of individual consumers, Watchdog shows how the Bureau quickly became a powerful force for good, suing big banks for cheating or deceiving consumers, putting limits on predatory lenders, simplifying mortgage paperwork, safeguarding the mortgage market and the economy, and stepping in to help solve problems raised by individual consumers. It tells a hopeful story of how our system can be reformed by putting government back on the side of the people, to strengthen our families, safeguard the marketplace, and establish a new baseline of fairness in our democratic society"--
9780197502990
2019042464
United States. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
United States--Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.-- --
HG181 / .C69 2020
381.3 / C796