A Zombie CFPB?
As of Friday morning, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s offices had been closed for the week by Acting Director Russell Vought. He sent workers home with strict instructions not to work.
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As of Friday morning, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s offices had been closed for the week by Acting Director Russell Vought. He sent workers home with strict instructions not to work.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced this week that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has become its acting director. One of his first official acts was to halt the work of the agency pending a review.
Less than a week into Donald Trump’s second term as president, Colombia narrowly averted a trade war with the U.S. The disagreement arose after Colombia initially rejected two repatriation flights of migrants.
It seems every year the experts predict an increase in bank M&A. And this year is no exception.
For more than a week, fires have raged around Los Angeles. As of Thursday morning, 24 people died, 40,695 acres have burned and over 12,300 structures — homes, offices, historic sites — were lost, according to Cal Fire, a state agency.
Investors finally got excited about bank stocks in 2024, particularly toward the middle of the year as the Federal Reserve began signaling cuts to interest rates.
If I could point to one key theme from Bank Director’s surveys in 2024, it would be the impact of regulation.
After UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in New York earlier this month, there was certainly outrage over such a brazen crime.
This week, the Federal Reserve threw the markets into a frenzy, lowering estimates for how much it could cut the federal funds rate next year while cutting the current rate by a quarter of a percentage point.
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