Y'all-itics

Who Are You Going to Complain to Now Texas?


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It definitely doesn't have a catchy name: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But our guest this week says, "if you're returning almost $20 billion to ordinary people, you've got to be doing something right". In the past several years, dissatisfied and frustrated Texas consumers have comprised the most---or second most---number of people turning to the CFPB for help taking on 'Big Finance'. But now the agency they counted on is itself in danger under Trump 2.0. UT-Austin Banking, Financial, Commercial and Corporate Law Professor Angela Littwin previously wrote an opinion column about saving the CFPB when its survival was threatened before. She joins us to talk about what its demise would mean for Texans.
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Angela K. Littwin
Charles Sapp Chair in Banking, Financial, Commercial and Corporate Law Professor
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