Meltdown: The Financial Crisis, Consumer Protection, and the Road Forward

by Gregory D. Squires, Larry Kirsch, Gregory Squires

Book Overview

Meltdown reveals how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was able to curb important unsafe and unfair practices that led to the recent financial crisis. In interviews with key government, industry, and advocacy groups along with deep archival research, Kirsch and Squires show where the CFPB was able to overcome many abusive practices, where it was less able to do so, and why.

Open for business in 2011, the CFPB was Congress's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1440842426
• ISBN13: 9781440842429
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.4"