Top Features
America's Next Top Model Disclosure
Gadi Dechter discusses home mortgage loan disclosures the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is developing in this post on The Hill's blog.
Don’t Roll Back Wall Street Reform
Michael S. Barr details why the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act requires full congressional funding.
Accountability for Consumer Financial Protection
Michael Barr argues in The Hill that we need a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that’s got the independence it needs to be accountable to the American people.Other Markets & Regulation Features
January 19, 2012
Big Ideas for Small Business: BusinessUSA
Kristina Costa explains how BusinessUSA can pull together hard-to-find, useful information on the dozens of government programs designed to help small-business owners.
December 22, 2011
Big Ideas for Small Business: The CDFI Bond Guarantee Program
Jordan Eizenga explains why the CDFI Bond Guarantee Program would be good for small business.
December 15, 2011
Big Ideas for Small Business
Small startup companies are proven job creators, yet current government assistance doesn’t reach them effectively and efficiently, write Ed Paisley and Sean Pool.
December 8, 2011
Big Ideas for Small Business: The American Jobs Act
Heather Boushey details why President Obama’s jobs legislation would help small businesses in ways that enjoyed bipartisan support not too long ago.
December 6, 2011
5 Terrible, No-Good, Very Bad Things About the REINS Act
Kristina Costa shows how the anti-regulation REINS Act would turn a regulatory process driven by scientific expertise, industry input, and careful cost-benefit analysis into a political circus.
November 29, 2011
We Need a Leader at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Christian E. Weller shows how banks fatten up on fees at the expense of everyday consumers, which Senate Republicans support by blocking the first CFPB chairman.
November 22, 2011
Creating a Successful Progressive Economy
At a Progressivism on Tap event, Dean Baker and Jared Bernstein discuss how to build a new economic order that is equitable, productive, and responsive to the needs of all Americans.
November 18, 2011
Regulatory Nonsense
The conservative echo chamber keeps repeating the false argument that regulations kill jobs, write Kristina Costa and Michael Linden. Everyone else begs to differ.
November 16, 2011
Improving Regulatory Performance: Lessons from the United Kingdom
Senior Fellow Jitinder Kohli testifies before the Senate Budget Committee.
November 10, 2011