As Congress turns its attention to a financial regulatory overhaul, one provision under consideration is the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency to regulate mortgages and credit cards. Gottlieb professor of law Elizabeth Warren—now on leave to serve in Washington as head of congressional oversight for the Troubled Asset Relief Program—is described as, unofficially, that possible agency’s “chief conceiver” and “booster” in a just-posted New York Times profile.
To learn more about Warren’s views on the condition of middle-class Americans, and her case for a consumer financial protection agency, see these articles from Harvard Magazine’s archives:
The Middle Class on the Precipice (from the January-February 2006 issue)
Making Credit Safer (from the May-June 2008 issue)
