Larry Kirsch and Gregory Squires have written Meltdown: The Financial Crisis, Consumer Protection, and the Road Forward. Here's how the authors describe the book's 5 key features:
- Presents the first comprehensive examination of the CFPB that identifies its successes during its first five years of operation and addresses the challenges the bureau now faces
- Exposes the alarming possibility that as the economy recovers, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's efforts to protect consumers could be derailed by political and industry pressure
- Offers provisional assessment of the effectiveness of the CFPB and consumer protection regulation
- Gives readers unique access to insightful perspectives via on-the-record interviews with a cross-section of stakeholders, ranging from Richard Cordray (director of the CFPB) to public policy leaders, congressional staffers, advocates, scholars, and members of the press
- Documents the historical and analytic narrative with more than 40 pages of end notes that will assist scholars, students, and practitioners
