Elon Musk wants to 'delete' a federal agency designed to prevent another financial crisis and protect people from scams

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics, Business
Elon Musk
Elon Mush and Vivek Ramaswamy have floated "deleting" entire agencies, laying off staff, and enforcing return-to-office mandates to cut costs.

Samuel Corum/Getty Images

America is trapped in a nightmare of never-ending subscriptions

Tech Insider : Economy
Hand submerged in a wave of dollar bills and subscribe buttons

Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI

Doug Mattison just wanted to cancel his gym membership.

The best way to fix your credit score? Ignore it.

Tech Insider : Economy
An anxious person scrutinizing a credit score meter, with a needle pointing to a good rating.

Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI

Consumers reported losing $210 million to scams across payment apps last year. A new bill wants to help future victims get their money back.

Tech Insider : Economy
A silhouette of a person using a cell phone is seen against a purple background with the Zelle name and the company's motto:
Zelle users would have increased protections against scams under a proposed bill in Congress.

Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Your credit card company is looking for new ways to screw you over

Tech Insider : Economy
A hand holding a credit card with a knife as its shadow
Cred card issuers are very good at getting money out of people. There are all sorts of levers they will use to make up for reduced late fees.

iStock; Rebecca Zisser/BI

U.S. Bank has been fined nearly $36 million for freezing some customers' access to unemployment benefits during the pandemic

Tech Insider
The logo of US Bank is seen atop the US Bank Tower in downtown Los Angeles

Fred Prouser/Reuters

‘I’ve had this black cloud looming over me’: How private lenders have left millions of college students with no hope for the future

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
A small piggy bank is surrounded by a hurricane of student loan papers, unable to escape.
Despite the political fight over student-loan forgiveness, people with private student debt are stuck with predatory loan terms they can't escape.

Chelsea Jia Feng/Insider

Some student-loan companies are offering borrowers cheaper payments before the October restart. Making the switch could strip away a range of debt relief programs.

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
Shadows of college graduates

Getty Images

A federal watchdog is suing a tech boot camp, accusing it of loading students up with 'predatory' debt and telling them it could collect 'more than the consumer legally owed'

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
Rohit Chopra
Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, at Senate committee hearing in June.

Michael A. McCoy/Getty Images

Credit card companies need to explain the 'exorbitant' late fees they're charging customers, says Elizabeth Warren

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) questions Jerome Powell, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as he testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee on June 22, 2022 in Washington, DC. Powell testified on the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress during the hearing.

Win McNamee/Getty Images

Subscribe to CFPB