by Larry Kirsch (Author), Gregory D . Squires (Author)
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.
* Presents the first comprehensive examination of the CFPB that identifies its successes during its first five years of operation and addresses the challenges the bureau now faces
* Exposes the alarming possibility that as the economy recovers, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's efforts to protect consumers could be derailed by political and industry pressure
* Offers provisional assessment of the effectiveness of the CFPB and consumer protection regulation
* Gives readers unique access to insightful perspectives via on-the-record interviews with a cross-section of stakeholders, ranging from Richard Cordray (director of the CFPB) to public policy leaders, congressional staffers, advocates, scholars, and members of the press
* Documents the historical and analytic narrative with more than 40 pages of end notes that will assist scholars, students, and practitioners
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 156
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 31 Mar 2017
ISBN 10: 1440842426
ISBN 13: 9781440842429
Book Overview: Kirsch and Squires have penned the definitive chronicle of the first years of a transformative federal agency-the CFPB. They have combined rigorous archival research with in-depth interviews of key insiders to help readers understand the enormous challenges that faced the Bureau as it took on what many consider to be the most powerful lobbying force in the nation-the financial services industry. There are lessons here for the general public but also for policymakers, students of policy making, and advocates looking to build a more equitable economic playing field. -- Dan Immergluck, Professor, School of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology This book provides an interesting, readable account of how Director Richard Cordray and others shaped the approach of the newly formed CFPB to its role as the preeminent consumer financial services regulatory agency and the challenges and opposition (some of which came from me and my law firm) faced by the bureau as it embarked on its initial initiatives. Even the bureau's closest observers are likely to learn something new from the book's account of the bureau's early efforts directed at mortgage origination and auto lending. The book combines considerable research with in-depth interviews to offer an appraisal that will interest scholars, practitioners, and readers of current politics and policy. -- Alan S. Kaplinsky, Chair, Consumer Financial Services Group and Editor-in-Chief of CFPB Monitor blog at Ballard Spahr LLP After the 2008 economic collapse, consumer, civil rights, and labor groups went 'all in' for then-professor Elizabeth Warren's idea of a consumer agency to protect pocketbooks and wallets. Now, just after the CFPB's fifth birthday, Kirsch and Squires go behind the scenes to explore why some of the young agency's leaders moved in the directions that they did to fight the endemic problems that CFPB director Richard Cordray calls the 'four Ds: deception, debt traps, dead ends, and discrimination.' The book is an important addition to the public record about an agency that is controversial only to the powerful special interests that oppose it but necessary to the consumers who have a safer financial marketplace because of it. -- Edmund Mierzwinski, U.S. PIRG Consumer Program Director and Senior Fellow An indispensable account of the birth of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and its tumultuous early years, with a richly documented analysis of the Bureau's pivotal battles to tame the nation's mortgage market and police discrimination in auto lending. Drawing on extensive interviews with enthusiasts as well as critics, this volume offers an invaluable resource for those seeking to evaluate continuing debates over the future of the CFPB. -- Howell E. Jackson, James S. Reid Jr., Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Meltdown examines the clash of incentives of the key political and industry players in a thoroughly-researched account of the complex, tragic, and sometimes scandalous machinations of the financial services system, as well as the regulatory solutions designed to correct them. Kirsch and Squires are the first to put forth a rigorous analysis of the evolution and impact of Senator Elizabeth Warren's original vision for consumer financial protection. -- Vanessa Gail Perry, PhD, Professor of Marketing, Strategic Management and Public Policy, The George Washington University School of Business
Larry Kirsch is managing partner of IMR Health Economics, Portland, OR.
Gregory D. Squires is professor of sociology and public policy and public administration at George Washington University.
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