February 7th, 2018268The U.S. Senate reached a $300 billion spending deal Wednesday meant to fund the government for two years.
If the government isn't funded by Thursday, it will mean another shutdown.
The senate's agreement was announced by both Republican and Democratic leaders and would lift caps on defense funding and some domestic government...
February 7th, 2018071The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau made news this week when it announced it would pull back from a full-scale probe of last year's Equifax data breach.
The CFPB's former leader, Richard Cordray, launched an investigation into Equifax after the credit bureau announced in September that hackers had stolen personal data from some...
February 7th, 2018173Not if Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer have anything to say about it.
The two said they were making progress on an agreement to fund the government for two years after the U.S. House of Representatives passed its budget bill Tuesday, according to a Reuters article. Government...
January 26th, 20181120The United States government released reports Friday showing that the economy grew at an annual rate of 2.6 percent in the final quarter of 2017, according to a report from the New York Times.
The Times reported that a 2.3 percent rise in the nation's output last year combined with a falling jobless rate, a surging stockmarket and a...
January 11th, 20181100The employee challenging President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau suffered a legal blow Wednesday.
U.S. District Court Judge Timothy J. Kelly refused to grant Leandra English, the CFPB’s deputy director, a preliminary injunction against the appointment of Mick Mulvaney.
English and Mulvaney...
January 10th, 2018167Gen X isn’t feeling so confident about retiring, according to a USA Today report.
A survey from TD Ameritrade found that nearly four out of 10 people born between 1965 and the late 1970s say they would like to “fully retire” someday, but feel like they won’t be able to afford to.
USA Today reports that much of this gloom...
January 9th, 20182581Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) accused the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau of using security concerns as an excuse to hamper the group's operations.
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Warren thought up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and helped...
January 8th, 201828173Here’s some bad news for those struggling with less than stellar credit scores: you may have a difficult time getting a new car loan in 2018.
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates three times in 2017 and is predicted to raise rates at least that many times again in 2018. And that, of course, means interest rates on new car loans...
January 8th, 20185683Banks, retailers and technology firms came together late last week to send a letter to the House Energy and Commerce committee asking for new federal regulations governing data breaches that would preempt state law, according to Credit Union Journal.
The groups called for regulations that would create a "flexible, scalable standard"...