iPhone app iPad app Android phone app Android tablet app

Elizabeth Warren Cfpb

Mark Gongloff

Elizabeth Warren Blasts Senate Republicans For Holding Up CFPB Nomination

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Gongloff | Posted 03.13.2013 | Business

Elizabeth Warren may be glad she didn't end up running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, because in her consolation job as a U.S. senator, she...

Collateral Damage: The Hidden Pain of a Bank Whistleblower

Jerry Ashton | Posted 11.04.2012 | Business
Jerry Ashton

Ever wonder what happens to the friends, fortune and family of a whistleblower? Taking it all in stride and landing a better-paying job? Vacationi...

Tricks, Traps, and Accountability

Elizabeth Warren | Posted 09.22.2012 | Politics
Elizabeth Warren

A working market needs rules, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is starting to level the playing field. That's a good thing for consumers -- and it didn't come a moment too soon.

Ryan Grim

CFPB's First Big Action Could Boost Elizabeth Warren

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.18.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced its first enforcement action Wednesday morning, targeting Capital One for deceptive m...

Jennifer Bendery

Richard Cordray: My Appointment Is Valid

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 01.05.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Less than a day after his controversial recess appointment, Richard Cordray on Thursday moved full steam ahead with his plans for runnin...

Jennifer Bendery

Obama Has Tiny Window To Appoint Consumer Protection Chief

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 12.29.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has been pressing the Senate for months to confirm Richard Cordray as the director of the new Consumer Financial ...

Ombudsman Office I helped create at CFPB Will Field Consumer Financial Complaints

Rep. Carolyn Maloney | Posted 12.21.2011 | Politics
Rep. Carolyn Maloney

Despite not having a confirmed director, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has already demonstrated how effective it can be. Only in the most polarized political environment could its goals be considered controversial.

Jennifer Bendery

Senate GOP Blocks Obama Nominee

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 02.07.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked an effort to put someone in charge at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a move that preve...

Jennifer Bendery

White House Targeting GOP Senators In Seven States For Their Support

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 12.05.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The White House is launching an aggressive, eleventh-hour media blitz this week aimed at pressuring Senate Republicans to confirm a stal...

Sam Stein

Nancy Pelosi: Scott Brown Is 'Clueless'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.09.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) laced into Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) on Sunday, calling the senator "clueless" for his de...

Ryan Grim

Scott Brown: 'Thank God' Elizabeth Warren Didn't 'Take Her Clothes Off'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.06.2011 | Politics

Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) Thursday said he was glad that one of his Democratic opponents, consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren, didn't "take her clothe...

Elizabeth Warren: 'The People On Wall Street Broke This Country'

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.05.2011 | Politics

In her first debate as a candidate for U.S. Senate Tuesday night, Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren declined to criticize her fellow Democratic c...

Jennifer Bendery

Obama's Consumer Protection Nominee Ensnared In Political Fight

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 11.06.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- It may have been mostly for show, but the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday held its nomination hearing for Richard Cordray, President...

Elizabeth Warren Takes Next Step Toward Possible Senate Run

Posted 10.18.2011 | Politics

Elizabeth Warren, the former Obama adviser and consumer protection advocate, launched an exploratory committee Thursday, the next step toward a possib...

Shahien Nasiripour

Elizabeth Warren's Farewell Note: 'I Leave This Agency, But Not This Fight'

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 09.28.2011 | Business

WASHINGTON -- Elizabeth Warren, rebuffed by the White House, today leaves the consumer agency she conceived of and created to return to academic life ...

Amanda Terkel

Wall Street Giving Big To Scott Brown Ahead Of Possible Elizabeth Warren Race

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 09.20.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- As Democrats urge Elizabeth Warren, one of Wall Street's most public foes, to seek a U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts next year, the fi...

Republicans Fight To Weaken New Consumer Protection Agency, Obama Threatens Veto

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 09.20.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The House greeted the official opening Thursday of the new agency to protect consumers from financial abuse by voting to change its...

Bungling the Bureau: The Consumer Financial Protection Mess Is Another Lost Opportunity

Adam Hanft | Posted 09.20.2011 | Politics
Adam Hanft

The Consumer Financial Protection Agency should have been a legacy of enduring value. Today should have been a day of celebration. Instead, the new bureau is just another contentious mess, another debacle that dispirits even the optimists.

Michael McAuliff

Dems Plan To Exploit GOP Bid To Gut CFPB

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 09.19.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Surprised Democrats think Republicans are giving them a gift for the first birth Thursday of the new consumer financial watchdog: a chan...

Shahien Nasiripour

Republican Opposition To Elizabeth Warren Allows White House To Duck Uncomfortable Questions

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 09.17.2011 | Business

WASHINGTON -- Thanks to united Republican opposition to Elizabeth Warren as the permanent head of the consumer protection agency she dreamed up and sh...

Michael McAuliff

Elizabeth Warren Out, But GOP Won't Back Richard Cordray Either

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 09.17.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- President Obama may have rid himself of a high-profile confirmation fight by shunning Elizabeth Warren and picking former Ohio Attorney ...

Republicans Vow To Block Obama's CFPB Nominee

Posted 09.17.2011 | Politics

By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama warned the financial industry Monday to stop fighting his administration's reforms to help ...

Michael McAuliff

Progressives Launch Petition To Draft Elizabeth Warren For Senate

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 09.17.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -– If progressives can’t have Elizabeth Warren as the head of the federal government’s new consumer watchdog agency, they want her to...

Obama Nominates Richard Cordray To Head Controversial New Agency

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 09.17.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama moved Monday to get a new consumer protection bureau up and running, introducing a former Ohio attorney gene...

Obama Picks Nominee To Lead Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Posted 09.16.2011 | Politics

This article has been updated to include statements from Elizabeth Warren and Timothy Geithner. President Barack Obama will nominate former Ohio At...