Financial Regulation

Opinion February 3

CAROL ROTH: The money in your 'safe' savings account could vanish overnight

Financial institutions close accounts for inactivity even when earning interest, sending funds to states through escheatment processes that affect savers.

Opinion February 2

SEN BERNIE SANDERS: We need to cap credit card interest rates at 10%

Senator Bernie Sanders calls Wall Street credit card practices "usury" as major banks profit from 24% average rates while borrowing at 4% from Fed.

DEI January 12

Conservative legal group targets CFPB rule mandating race, sex data in home loans

President Donald Trump's anti-DEI efforts expand as legal group petitions Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to scrap mortgage lender demographic tracking requirements.

VIDEO December 6

Rep. Steil backs proposed ban on congressional stock trading: 'Go to Wall Street!'

Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wis., House Financial Services Digital Assets chair, joins 'Fox & Friends Weekend' to tout Texas’ Bitcoin buy, urge U.S. leadership in Web3 and push tougher rules on lawmakers’ stock trading.

VIDEO August 16

Housing chief: Opportunity zones change people's lives

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner tells 'My View with Lara Trump' how opportunity zones are helping 'transform' communities around the country and more.

Opinion July 9

High school students discover the big secret about consumer financial protection

The personal impact of the 2008 housing crisis on a student's family reveals why the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau matters as Trump administration cuts enforcement

Opinion February 13, 2025

SENS. BERNIE SANDERS AND JOSH HAWLEY: Cap credit card interest rates at 10%

Sens. Bernie Sanders and Josh Hawley agree it's time to help Americans dig out from debt. They are working together to limit credit card interest rates, where people owe $1.17 trillion.

Crime November 26, 2024

TD Bank's historic $3B money laundering case rocks financial world as more charges possible

TD Bank fined $3 billion in money-laundering fiasco that allowed organized crime to transfer hundreds of millions without being reported under federal regulation.

OPINION August 28, 2024

Far left wants to crush PayPal, Zelle and you can take that to the bank

It doesn't matter how much Americans use or even love payment processors like Zelle and PayPal, the far left wants to wreck those firms and replace them with more ... government.

OPINION March 25, 2024

Biden's DEI mandates on employers fail American workers

Biden is trying to ram through 800 pages of new rules restricting successful apprenticeship programs. The new plan mandates DEI and makes the whole concept too expensive.