The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is likely to be reigned in if not rendered i
mpotent or even abolished under President Trump. He has said he would come “close to dismantling” it along with Dodd-Frank. That is good news for small business, consumers, the economy in general — and note investors.
The CFPB is the brainchild of super-liberal Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren, who never met a business she doesn’t want to regulate.
“At stake is the agency’s aggressive approach to regulating credit and prepaid cards, mortgages, payday and student loans, debt collection, credit reporting and other areas of consumer finance since opening for business in 2011.”