Financial Justice

Financial Justice

Home
Archive
About
When Insurance Fails, the House Falls Down
Insurance is supposed to be the quiet guardrail of economic life — invisible until the moment disaster strikes, there to catch families from financial…
 • Americans for Financial Reform
Forget Trump and Musk: Voters Like the CFPB
Forget what Trump, Elon Musk, and Wall Street think of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Large majorities of voters, across party lines, support…
 • Americans for Financial Reform
Illegal CFPB Purge? Fast Court Order!
How can you suddenly and illegally decide to fire nearly 1,500 people that have devoted their careers to making sure that Wall Street banks, predatory…
 • Americans for Financial Reform
One Hundred (and Three) Days of Trumpers at the CFPB
Donald Trump has been president for 103 days.
 • Americans for Financial Reform
The People Fight Back Against a Billionaire-Oligarch’s Plan to Destroy the CFPB
A few years ago, the events of the past two weeks would have made for the foundation of a pulpy dystopian novel – but it’s the Consumer Financial…
 • Americans for Financial Reform
A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day for Payday Lenders at the Supreme Court
For a recap of today’s oral arguments in CFPB v.
 • Americans for Financial Reform
SEC Targeted by Fifth-Circuit Extremism
What happens when you bring together an agency designed to protect capital markets investors, a pair of litigious hedge funds accused of committing…
 • Americans for Financial Reform
Fifth Circuit Really Wants that Late Fees Case
Developments in the industry lawsuit against the CFPB’s new rule capping credit card late fees are coming thick and fast, but not all of them are…
 • Americans for Financial Reform
In this Coloring Book, P is for "Private Equity"
Private equity, the Wall Street behemoths that are the spearhead of financialization, can come in many colors.
 • Americans for Financial Reform
CFPB v. CFSA: Catastrophic Consequences?
Fewer than two weeks remain before oral arguments for CFPB v.
 • Americans for Financial Reform
Private Equity is at Our Door. Don’t Open It!
Private equity has spent about four decades being the barbarians at the corporate gate. Once they let themselves in, they descended on nearly every…
 • Americans for Financial Reform
Another Dimon Tantrum on Bank Capital
JPMorgan Chase’s CEO has been whining about capital requirements for years, from jibes about “gold plating” by smart American regulators to this week’s…
 • Americans for Financial Reform
© 2026 Americans for Financial Reform · Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start your SubstackGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture