February 02, 2018
Mick Mulvaney, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), effectively decided to incentivize ripoff schemes by taking away the enforcement powers of the CFPB division that is charged with blocking such schemes. As fans of free markets everywhere know, if it possible to make money by designing deceptive financial products that rip off low- and moderate-income people, profit-maximizing companies will do it.
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