Watchdog : how protecting consumers can save our families, our economy, and our democracy /
"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...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2020]
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Watchdog
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Foreword by Senator Elizabeth Warren
- Preface
- PART I: THE CASE FOR A CONSUMER WATCHDOG
- 1 Consumers and Predators
- 2 The Rise of the Financial Consumer
- 3 An Ominous Mismatch
- 4 The Making of a Watchdog
- PART II: LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD
- 5 Giving People a Voice That Matters
- 6 A Powerful Force for Good
- 7 Playing by the Rules
- 8 Ways and Means
- 9 Know Before You Owe
- PART III: PITCHED BATTLES FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM
- 10 A Great Big Country
- 11 Teaming Up for Consumers
- 12 The Tougher Fights
- PART IV: TAKING ON THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
- 13 Under Fire from All Sides
- 14 The Last Big Fights
- 15 A Treacherous Transition
- PART V: GOVERNING IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
- 16 Concluding Thoughts
- Notes
- Index