Today’s links The CFPB is genuinely making America better, and they’re going HARD: Fighting corporate crime with both fists and 7-2 SCOTUS backing. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I’ve been. Latest books: You keep readin’ em, I’ll keep writin’ ’em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I’ll keep writin’ ’em. Colophon: All the rest. The CFPB is genuinely making America better, and they’re going HARD (permalink) Let’s take a sec here and notice something genuinely great happening in the US government: the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau’s stunning, unbroken streak of major, muscular victories over the forces of corporate corruption, with the backing of the Supreme Court (yes, that Supreme Court), and which is only speeding up! A little background. The CFPB was created in 2010. It was Elizabeth Warren’s brainchild, an institution that was supposed to regulate finance from the perspective of the American public, not the American finance sector. Rather than fighting to “stabilize” the financial sector (the mission that led to Obama taking his advisor Timothy Geithner’s advice to permit the foreclosure crisis to continue in order to “foam the runways” for the banks), the Bureau would fight to defend us from bankers. The CFPB got off to a rocky start, with challenges to the unique system of long-term leadership appointments meant to depoliticize the office, as well as the sudden resignation of its inaugural boss, who broke his promise…Pluralistic: The CFPB is genuinely making America better, and they're going HARD (10 Jun 2024)