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Consumers are biggest losers of Trump's ongoing war on regulations

  • Written by Jeff Sovern, Professor of Law, St. John's University
Some worry Mick Mulvaney is putting banks before consumers as head of the CFPB. Reuters/Yuri Gripas

President Donald Trump has been waging a war on regulation since he got into office on the ground that government red tape costs the economy billions of dollars a year.

Among the victors in this battle have been energy companies, banks and the...

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