by Editor | Jan 2, 2022 | Recent News - Tom Miller
The new director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, has started rattling his interventionist saber only two months after his Senate confirmation. From pushing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to block bank mergers to attacking bank overdraft...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Editor | Jul 28, 2021 | Recent News - Tom Miller
On June 21, the Supreme Court ruled that the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s strict limits on compensation for student-athletes violated antitrust law. The door is now open for college athletes to license their names, images and likenesses.   The...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Editor | Jul 28, 2021 | Recent News - Tom Miller
Consumers’ Research Senior Fellow Professor Tom Miller, Jr. will testify before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs at 10:00 A.M. Thursday, July 29.   The hearing is entitled “Protecting Americans from Debt Traps by Extending the...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Editor | Mar 22, 2021 | Recent News - Tom Miller
Why is the Senate allowing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to drift away from Senator Elizabeth Warren’s original vision of a data-driven agency “with research at the core of all of its work?” Prudent regulators should not make policy based on mere...