CFPB is going to be the biggest cluster*@k ever.  They are chomping at the bit to rip companies to shreds. The new head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wasted little time getting to work, using the agency’s new powers to start supervising payday lenders and other firms outside the conventional banking system. The bureau’s main goal will be ensuring that consumer loans, mortgages... 

It seems like it would be one of the hardest jobs in the country right now, especially as a poll published today reveals that only 41 per cent of people want him to have a second term. But President Obama often finishes his working day at 4pm, it has been reported. Sources claim that Mr Obama regularly strolls out of the Oval Office way before the afternoon has ended. See you later: Barack Obama reportedly... 

Links to the stories you MUST read before the weekend 10 Planned Parenthood Lies Every Pro-Choice Person Should Condemn Another Obama Land Grab Globalist George Soros: “America Should Be Replaced By a World Government With a Global Currency Under UN Rule” World Bank; The end of Israel close at hand EU’s Unraveling Preps Global Currency? Will Bretton Woods shock U.S. economy? Global leaders... 

George Soros — whom we’re always told is not serving his own economic interests at all by promoting liberal politicians and big-government policies — is launching a new investment fund, that plans to profit off of the “green energy” boom, which is entirely dependent on government subsidies. As the press release puts it, this fund will “leverage technology and... 

via Libertarian News: The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission report on the 2008 financial crisis will spread the blame all around to everyone from federal regulators to corporate overseers to all kinds of government officials. But is it all for show?Peter Schiff, the president of Euro Pacific Capital argued the entire commission was a $10 million sham designed to conclude the government’s own... 

President Barack Obama has renominated Donald M. Berwick to be Medicare chief six months after bypassing the Senate and installing him in the job in a recess appointment, the White House announced Wednesday. Obama initially nominated Berwick last April. After the recess appointment in July, Berwick could serve through this year without Senate confirmation. Berwick has wide support in the medical community... 

A government official is preparing to tell lawmakers that the recent overhaul of financial rules hasn’t delivered on its promise to end future bailouts. Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky, who provides independent oversight of the $700 billion bailout fund created in 2008, is due to testify Wednesday at a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Barofsky says in a... 

(via Bloomberg) U.S. House Republicans prodded President Barack Obama’s top regulatory official on proposed environmental rules and whether they are in conflict with the administration’s pledge to scrap unnecessary regulations. Lawmakers told Cass Sunstein, head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, that the Environmental Protection Agency plans to limit carbon emissions, crack... 

This guy has a solution for everything…Especially for things that don’t need solutions. Bloggingheads.tv – Information Cocoons. The echo-chamber effect in blogs vs. newspapers (04:30) The architecture of serendipity (06:58) Cass offers solutions for blogosphere balkanization (08:41) The Fairness Doctrine sounds good—in theory (07:42) Should blogs be liable for defamation? (09:15) Flag-burning,... 

Barack Obama did it. With Congress in recess, the United States president confirmed the appointment of several ambassadors, including the ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, whose approval had been held up by the Senate. The decision is not only bound to anger Republicans, who now hold a majority in the House of Representatives, it also happens to be remarkably foolish. Let’s go back to one of the...