"Growing problems in the increasingly one-sided consumer finance markets blew up the economy in 2008. In the aftermath, Congress created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Using stories of individual consumers, Watchdog shows how the Bureau quickly became a powerful force for good, suing...

Up from the basement : the CFPB begins to take shape -- The shattered mortgage market -- Auto lending : the deals and the dealers -- The CFPB in action : did the Consumer Bureau get what it needed to do what was necessary?