This week four House Financial Services Committee Republicans penned a hostile missive to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau criticizing a lawsuit the agency filed in January along with the New York Attorney General against a notorious predatory auto lender, Credit Acceptance Corporation (CAC).

The ongoing banking crisis has reportedly only emboldened House Republicans to force a debt default crisis and hold the economy hostage until they get deep spending cuts punishing working families and seniors.

Today, the Federal Reserve made the counterproductive and ill-advised decision to raise interest rates by 25 basis points despite the Fed’s own projections that higher rates will drive up the unemployment rate to 4.6 percent – costing at least 2 million Americans their jobs. Government watchdog Accountable.US released a new analysis showing that fu

Bloomberg reports that Republican House Financial Services Chairman Patrick McHenry was thrown a high-dollar fundraiser by Signature Bank at their offices just 10 days before the bank’s collapse. The revelation comes as Chairman McHenry claims his committee will “get to the bottom” of the rash of recent failures of midsize banks which experts...