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How a D.C. Bureaucrat Amassed Power Over Businesses, Banks and Consumers
Wall Street Journal ^ | June 9, 2022 11:25 am ET | Ryan Tracy and Andrew Ackerman

Posted on 06/11/2022 3:03:42 PM PDT by entropy12

WASHINGTON—One of America’s most powerful regulators of business and finance has, at first glance, a relatively small job.

Rohit Chopra’s title is director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which regulates consumer finance. From that perch, he has built substantial sway at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which oversees about 5,000 banks, and the Federal Trade Commission, the antitrust watchdog.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: banks; bidenvoters; bureaucrat; cfpb; chopra; consumers
Bureaucracy is too big and too controlling of our lives. Note: to read full article needs WSJ subscription.


1 posted on 06/11/2022 3:03:42 PM PDT by entropy12
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To: entropy12

Looks like a creepy sleasebag


2 posted on 06/11/2022 3:31:28 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster

Looks like a creepy sleasebag

Creepy Indian sleaze bag - go back to India fella


3 posted on 06/11/2022 3:35:02 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: entropy12

The CFPB doesn’t report to Congress. Its funding is outside of Congressional appropriations.

This was all challenged at the Scotus.

Scotus found the authoritarian CFPB to be constitutional.

Article V.


4 posted on 06/11/2022 4:06:20 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie
Scotus found the authoritarian CFPB to be constitutional.

Yes, but they did find the Director appointed forever provisions unconstitutional, so every President gets to remove the last Director and appoint a new one. As the legislation was originally passed, Obama's Director was to serve as long as he wanted and then appoint his replacement.

5 posted on 06/11/2022 4:24:53 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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To: entropy12

Before the Democratic dictators we had an institution called Congress that set the rules by passing laws.


6 posted on 06/11/2022 4:44:25 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: PIF

India has lots of socialists, and socialist-caused problems.

I blame the leftist London School of Economics.


7 posted on 06/11/2022 4:47:10 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Nifster

To: entropy12
Looks like a creepy sleasebag

Well he’s a Democrat. So that would make him a creepy sleazebag.


8 posted on 06/11/2022 6:59:32 PM PDT by ncfool (Joe Biden USSA.. United Socialist state of aMeriKa...... 11.3.2020 - President in waiting Kama-la-la)
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