Errors on credit reports. Unexpected bank and other “junk” fees. New financial products that conceal their true costs and terms. For help with those problems, millions of consumers in the U.S. have ...

Willie Sutton famously said he robbed banks “because that’s where the money was.” The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has taken the opposite approach: it goes where the money was taken—and ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was one of the early targets of the Trump administration's attempts to dramatically reduce government spending. The bureau's work was first suspended in early ...

The political world’s atwitter speculating about what the Democratic debacle in Massachusetts will mean for health insurance reform. But the rapidly diminishing fortunes of the Senate Democrats are ...

He observed that although consumers constituted the largest economic group, they were the only major group whose voices were often not heard. More than six decades later, that warning still rings true ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), created after the Financial Crisis, tries to ensure financial institutions don’t rip off ordinary people. Since its inception, it has returned more ...

HIS FIRST MONTHS ON THE JOB. AND I WILL EXERCISE THE DUTIES OF MY OFFICE AFTER TAKING OFFICE LAST JANUARY, ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS ATTORNEY GENERAL DAVE DID WAS MOVE THE DESK IN HIS OFFICE SO IT FACES ...

Sunday's highlights come during National Consumer Protection Week.

Here’s what the agency has been doing for U.S. consumers since it was created in 2011—and what could change if the current administration continues to scale back its budget, staff, and mission By ...