Cory Doctorow on Nostr: So naturally Musk and Trump have shut down the Bureau. But, as Adam Levitin writes ...
So naturally Musk and Trump have shut down the Bureau. But, as Adam Levitin writes for *Credit Slips*, this was a profoundly stupid move. You see, under Dodd-Frank - the post-2008 financial crisis law that created the CFPB - state attorneys general are empowered to enforce its rules. Those rules can't be amended or rescinded for so long as the CFPB is in a coma.
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