Topic: Equifax

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Fox News: Who’s protecting consumers from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?

Rohit Chopra, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Rohit Chopra, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg

If CFPB found a financial institution had suffered a data breach of a similar magnitude, the fines and fees would be astronomical.

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Newsmax: Antitrust Watchdogs Should Focus on Substance, Not Size

Save for the rare instances where high start-up costs or other extreme barriers to entry are present or the potential customer base is extremely limited, most economists agree: Monopolies are bad for consumers. This thinking, now more than a century old, gave rise to the adoption of increasingly more comprehensive laws giving the federal government […]