Watchdog
How Protecting Consumers Can Save Our Families, Our Economy, and Our Democracy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 4 October 2021
- ISBN 9780197577561
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages300 pages
- Size 155x234x22 mm
- Weight 440 g
- Language English 201
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Short description:
Sharing stories of individual consumers, Watchdog shows how and why the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. 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. Former Bureau director Richard Cordray tells a hopeful story of how our system can be reformed by putting government back on the side of the people.
MoreLong description:
The necessary story of how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau became a powerful force for good in the lives of everyday Americans after the 2008 financial crash.
Every day across America, consumers face issues with credit cards, mortgages, car loans, and student loans. When they are cheated or mistreated, all too often they hit a brick wall when they challenge the financial companies. People are fed up, but few have the resources or expertise to fight back on their own. Growing problems in the increasingly one-sided finance markets blew up the economy in 2008. In the aftermath, Congress created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In Watchdog, former CFPB Director Richard Cordray 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, and stepping in to help solve problems raised by individual consumers. Along with providing a powerful explanation of how the financial industry became so dominant in American life, Watchdog 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.
Watchdog is the harrowing story of how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau grew up and became a major force for fairness in the marketplace. Rich shows what a difference good government can make for millions of Americans. Along the way, he describes in vivid detail the tough fights the Consumer Bureau took on and what it meant for every household in America.
Table of Contents:
Foreword by Senator Elizabeth Warren
Introduction
PART I: THE CASE FOR A CONSUMER WATCHDOG
Chapter 1: Consumers and Predators
Chapter 2: The Rise of the Financial Consumer
Chapter 3: An Ominous Mismatch
Chapter 4: The Making of a Watchdog
PART II: LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD
Chapter 5: Giving People a Voice that Matters
Chapter 6: A Powerful Force for Good
Chapter 7: Playing by the Rules
Chapter 8: Ways and Means
Chapter 9: Know Before You Owe
PART III: PITCHED BATTLES FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM
Chapter 10: A Great Big Country
Chapter 11: Teaming Up for Consumers
Chapter 12: The Tougher Fights
PART IV: TAKING ON THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
Chapter 13: Under Fire from All Sides
Chapter 14: The Last Big Fights
Chapter 15: A Treacherous Transition
PART V: GOVERNING IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
Chapter 16: Concluding Thoughts
