At this AEI event, experts will discuss the future of the CFPA bill in the House and Senate and whether it has the potential to effectively reform the financial system.

The Committee believes that the primary function of the CFPA should be to simplify and make more informative current disclosure requirements to ensure that consumers receive sufficient information about financial products to make informed decisions.

The Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act of 2009 discriminates based on perceived experience, sophistication, and perhaps even intelligence disparities.

AEI's Peter J. Wallison and Alex J. Pollock offer their opinions on the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency.

Longstanding policies that were intended to promote confidence in the independence of regulatory decision-making have now been wiped away by the Dodd-Frank act, which has in effect placed all the financial regulators under the direction of the Treasury secretary.

The Regulatory Accountability Act is an effort to channel the discretion and improve the performance of the modern administrative state.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a man whose political success is largely attributable to the aura of befuddled incompetence he uses to disarm his adversaries, was a failed Watergate baby.