Updating Wednesday’s post, the Wall Street Journal reports that Elizabeth Warren has been named “assistant to the president and special advisor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.” This does not make her head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – that position is still unfilled – but it gives her authority to appoint officials and direct some of the operations of the Bureau. Consumers can celebrate this moment, when the CFPB can finally move towards strategic enforcement. Eventually, Congress will confirm a director, but in the meantime Ms. Warren will give the Bureau much-needed and immediate direction.
Assisted by David Martin