Workers with health insurance still face rising deductibles and large medical bills. Advisers explain how to avoid costly ...

The Supreme Court may decide as soon as Friday whether to tackle a new case that could further constrain the power of US regulators to delve into American businesses and individual lives. In recent ...

NEW YORK — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Congress established to monitor credit card companies, mortgage providers, debt collectors and other segments of the consumer finance ...

Five years ago, Sally Proske was 30 and desperate. She had accumulated nearly $41,000 in high-interest credit card debt—more than she could comfortably pay off on her salary as a live-event and ...

Bill Doak and his wife, Linda, were preparing to buy a new house this spring when a mortgage broker made an ominous declaration after scanning their credit report: “Oh my God, you’re in trouble.” The ...

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was created out of the wreckage of the 2008 financial crisis.

Financial exploitation in the elder population has been on the rise, with financial institutions reporting quadruple the number of such incidences from 2013 to 2017, according to the Consumer ...

Protesters rally outside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on February 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. Senior Correspondent For a long time, Misty Castaneda had terrible credit. Even though ...

Advocates of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) give the impression that there would be no consumer protection without the CFPB. Yet Congress established a viable consumer-protection ...

When President Barack Obama signed legislation in 2010 to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he said the new agency had one priority: "looking out for people, not big banks, not lenders, ...

"That's it!" the girl exclaimed. "That's what happened! That's what my family’s big secret was!" In Economics class, my seniors were learning about the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession.