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8 ways the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is helping consumers

Change rarely comes quickly in Washington. Yet in the two years since its creation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has managed to shake up the relationship between American borrowers and lenders."I'm amazed, to be be honest, that any agency has been able to do so much in such a short amount of time," said Richard Fischer, a senior partner at the Washington-based law firm Morrison & Foerster, who co-authored a recent report analyzing the CFPB.The watchdog agency envisioned by Massachusetts ...