Adam Levin

President Obama "manned up" Wednesday, exercised his executive authority and announced the recess appointment of Richard Cordray as the Director of the Consumer Financial...

Welcome to the first annual "Most disCredited Awards." In a bad-economy year full of silly laws, mortgage miseries, political gaffes, Hatfield-McCoy feuding, credit downgrades,...

If you were in foreclosure in 2009 or 2010, you’ve got until Monday, Dec. 31 to request of independent review of your case. You’ve...

As a citizen, a voter, and a consumer, what do you think this country needs? Less partisanship in Congress? Less Congress? Easier credit? Lower...

The Honorable Richard Shelby, Mitch McConnell and -- to quote Spiro Agnew -- "those nattering nabobs of negativism" (by which I mean the 43...

The too-big-to-fail boys and their GOP handmaidens -- the Hon. Richard Shelby, the Hon. Mitch McConnell and the other 43 legislative dwarves in the...

As we ring out what has been a pretty lousy year for most of us, Wall Streeters are all aglow -- thoughts turning to...

By now almost everyone I know (and millions of people I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting yet) has read or heard about Sony’s...

In a monumental act of hubris and deceit, an Erie, PA debt collection firm had employees pose as sheriff’s deputies and staged phony courtroom...

A massive cyber attack on American infrastructure is the 21st-century equivalent of the neutron bomb. All buildings remain standing but systems inside them are...

There is so much news---mostly ugly news from the consumer point of view---about the foreclosure crisis, but it seems one of the most important...

Historically, America's greatness as a country could be measured by the social mobility of its citizens. If you worked hard enough at a well-defined...

I confess I'm a one percenter. I guess I'm one of the folks that the people down on Wall Street are pointing their fingers at....

It was announced recently that nearly 5,000,000 patient records of military personnel were stolen. There was no elaborate hacking, and no technical skill was...

This week, Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill) made a remarkably pithy statement on the floor of the Senate that Bank of America patrons should "vote...

The American Jobs Act provides yet another example of President Obama potentially snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. It proposes a punitive response...

We need a real bailout, because the last one relied on a bad theory -- namely: horse-and-sparrow "trickle-down" economics. Why do we need a...

Last week's Senate Banking Committee hearing on the nomination of Richard Cordray to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau featured prepared speeches that were...

Between Freddie and Fannie's latest woes and the United States Postal Service teetering on collapse, it's been a bad week or so for quasi-governmental...

Everything old is new again.... Between 1634 and 1637, tulips became all the rage in Holland. The record of exactly what happened is sketchy and...