Recently we blogged about Elon Musk’s call to delete the CFPB. Musk was responding to an interview by Marc Andreesen on Joe Rogan’s podcast in which Andreesen attacked the CFPB as “sort of Elizabeth Warren’s personal agency that she gets to control … it’s an independent agency that just gets to . . . do what […]
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David Horton of California, Davis has written Accidental Arbitration, 102 Wash. U. L. Rev. — (forthcoming 2025). Here’s the abstract: The Supreme Court’s muscular interpretation of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) has encouraged businesses to insert arbitration clauses in untold millions of contracts. However, this Article explores a subtler way in which arbitration’s kingdom is […]
. . . on Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast, here.
More information here. Guests include former CFPB director Kathy Kraninger and former CFPB senior staffer David Silberman. Ballard Spahr will conduct the sessions.
Earlier today, Elon Musk posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the CFPB should be deleted as a duplicative regulatory agency. I’m not sure why Musk considers the CFPB duplicative or what he thinks it is duplicative of (or if he himself knows), but it is simply wrong to call the CPB duplicative. Some […]
Here’s the announcement: The Janet D. Steiger Fellowship Project provides law students with the extraordinary opportunity to work in the consumer protection departments of state and territorial Offices of Attorneys General and other consumer protection agencies, as well as the National Association of Attorneys General and the Attorney General’s Office of the District of Columbia. […]
Here. From the description of the episode: Today, we are joined again by Professor Boyack who has written a follow-up article entitled: “Abuse of Contract: Boilerplate Erasure of Consumer Counterparty Rights,” University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2024-03, which is the subject of our new show. The abstract of her […]
We received the following announcement: We’re Hiring A Policy Director! At the UC Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice, we work to establish equity and fairness in the marketplace. We believe that building economic justice means developing and enforcing laws that fight fraud and deception, that protect low-income communities and communities of color, […]
Here. The Consumer Finance Monitor podcast episode consists of an interview with Cornell’s Dan Awrey about his working paper “Money and Federalism,” “in which he advocates for the enactment of Federal legislation creating a federal charter for non-banks engaged in the payments business, like PayPal and Venmo.”
Larry Kirsch has written Power-Balancing: State Attorneys General and Unfair Mortgage Lending forthcoming in 9 International Review of Financial Consumers. Here’s the abstract: This paper is a case study in the enforcement of state unfair trade practice laws targeted at predatory mortgage lending and securitization abuses during the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. It considers how […]