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! e following editorial appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Friday:

Judging from the political ! restorm surrounding the creation of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2010 and the appointment of its director last month, you’d have thought it was a government plot to kill our jobs and steal our freedom.

In truth, the work of providing some reasonable federal oversight of everyday consumer ! nancial products and services — bill collecting, personal credit ratings, residential mortgages, telemarketing, payday lending, check cashing, student loans — is remarkably ordinary.

Last week, for example, the CFPB published a 17-page proposal in the Federal Register, describing how it wants to de! ne “larger participants” in the debt-collection and credit-rating markets. It also asked for comments from the public and business. A ! nal rule is expected by mid-July.

" is prosaic exercise in governance was required by the Dodd-Frank ! nancial reform law in which Congress authorized the CFPB to regulate, among ! nancial other entities, “larger participants” in the markets for consumer ! nancial products o# ered by non-banks. " e law le$ de! ning “larger” to the CFPB.

Once a de! nition is ! nalized, CFPB will be able to research, propose, implement and enforce for the ! rst time national standards to ensure fairness and protect consumers from the Wild West, no-rules approach that too o$ en has led to deceptive and abusive practices in these multi-billion-dollar industries.

" at’s when the ! nancial industry will really start to ! ght, of course, and the ! ght will be about money, no matter how many times you hear the words “freedom” and “job-killing.”

Money surely was the basis for furious industry lobbying against Dodd-Frank and the CFPB, assisted by the congressional Republicans who do industry’s bidding. " ey lost that battle when the law was enacted in 2010, but they extracted signi! cant concessions, one of which limited CFPB’s reach until it had a director.

Republicans worked to keep that from happening. " ey opposed President Barack Obama’s ! rst choice, Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor and consumer activist who had pushed for the creation of the CFPB. A Treasury Department advisory appointment, which did not require Senate con! rmation, allowed Warren to oversee the agency’s ! rst year of operation, much of which involved building an organizational structure. She has since le$ Washington to run for a U.S. Senate

seat from Massachusetts.A$ er Republicans vowed to

oppose any nominee for CFPB director, no matter how quali! ed, Mr. Obama used his presidential recess appointment authority in January to elevate Richard Cordray, a former Ohio attorney general heading CFPB’s enforcement department, to the position of director.

Under Cordray, the CFPB has lost no time pursuing initiatives to create reasonable national standards for ! nancial product markets that have had none for too long. On Wednesday, for example, it announced an investigation into bank overdra$ fees.

" e CFPB approach to regulation was evident in remarks delivered by Cordray at a recent hearing on payday loans in Birmingham, Ala. He acknowledged that 19 million American households are using the services — and paying $7.4 billion in fees each year for the privilege.

“We recognize the need for emergency credit,” Cordray said. “At the same time, it is important that these products actually help consumers, rather than harm them.” Seems pretty basic.

Properly cra$ ed rules covering ! nancial products will protect consumers and the honest, responsible businesses that sell them. Only the scammers — in industry and government — need to worry.

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Consumer protection advances despite ! erce opposition

Here we go again. Gas prices are at more than $4 a gallon in some parts of the country. Unless they don’t drive, folks can’t escape the pump price pain. Businesses large and small that are dependent upon petroleum feel great pain.

There’s no doubt tensions in the Middle East, particularly in Iran, are a primary reason for rising oil prices. But so are better growth expectations and expected increased demand from countries such as India, China and Brazil.

Those expectations make Wall Street speculators salivate. And why wouldn’t they? If it appears they have a good bet that oil futures bought today may be worth more tomorrow and even more in a month, why wouldn’t they take that bet? Well, they are — Wall Street oil speculation is on the rise ... again. As President Obama said just recently, “When uncertainty increases, speculative trading on Wall Street can drive up prices even more.”

One of the big Wall Street banks has said each million barrels of net speculative length adds as much as 10 cents to the price of a barrel of crude oil. But, what does that mean to us when we fill our tanks? With a little math, you can determine the “speculative premium” on oil

these days is around $23 a barrel — that translates into about an extra 56 cents for a gallon of gas.

I won’t bore you with the arithmetic, but that means if you fill up a Honda Civic, the speculative premium costs $7.39 every time you fill-er-up. If you drive a Ford Explorer or F150, the total is $10.41 and $14.56, respectively.

If folks fill up once a week, the Civic owner is putting out $384.28 more per year, the SUV owner $541.32 more, and the pickup owner $757.12 more. So yes, we’re talking real money and a real drain on families, businesses and our economic recovery.

There’s nothing wrong with speculation. We need speculators to have fully functional financial markets. It’s excessive speculation that becomes a problem. When one or two speculators (often big Wall Street banks) take huge positions, there’s bound to be a price impact. That’s why speculative position limits are necessary and must be implemented soon.

Over the long term, a national energy policy that includes things such as fuel efficiency standards, bio-energy and efforts to produce more domestic energy is also needed. For today though, limiting excessive Wall Street speculation won’t take us back to the days of $1.00 gas, but it will help limit the pump price pain.

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! e following editorial appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Friday:

Judging from the political ! restorm surrounding the creation of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2010 and the appointment of its director last month, you’d have thought it was a government plot to kill our jobs and steal our freedom.

In truth, the work of providing some reasonable federal oversight of everyday consumer ! nancial products and services — bill collecting, personal credit ratings, residential mortgages, telemarketing, payday lending, check cashing, student loans — is remarkably ordinary.

Last week, for example, the CFPB published a 17-page proposal in the Federal Register, describing how it wants to de! ne “larger participants” in the debt-collection and credit-rating markets. It also asked for comments from the public and business. A ! nal rule is expected by mid-July.

" is prosaic exercise in governance was required by the Dodd-Frank ! nancial reform law in which Congress authorized the CFPB to regulate, among ! nancial other entities, “larger participants” in the markets for consumer ! nancial products o# ered by non-banks. " e law le$ de! ning “larger” to the CFPB.

Once a de! nition is ! nalized, CFPB will be able to research, propose, implement and enforce for the ! rst time national standards to ensure fairness and protect consumers from the Wild West, no-rules approach that too o$ en has led to deceptive and abusive practices in these multi-billion-dollar industries.

" at’s when the ! nancial industry will really start to ! ght, of course, and the ! ght will be about money, no matter how many times you hear the words “freedom” and “job-killing.”

Money surely was the basis for furious industry lobbying against Dodd-Frank and the CFPB, assisted by the congressional Republicans who do industry’s bidding. " ey lost that battle when the law was enacted in 2010, but they extracted signi! cant concessions, one of which limited CFPB’s reach until it had a director.

Republicans worked to keep that from happening. " ey opposed President Barack Obama’s ! rst choice, Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor and consumer activist who had pushed for the creation of the CFPB. A Treasury Department advisory appointment, which did not require Senate con! rmation, allowed Warren to oversee the agency’s ! rst year of operation, much of which involved building an organizational structure. She has since le$ Washington to run for a U.S. Senate

seat from Massachusetts.A$ er Republicans vowed to

oppose any nominee for CFPB director, no matter how quali! ed, Mr. Obama used his presidential recess appointment authority in January to elevate Richard Cordray, a former Ohio attorney general heading CFPB’s enforcement department, to the position of director.

Under Cordray, the CFPB has lost no time pursuing initiatives to create reasonable national standards for ! nancial product markets that have had none for too long. On Wednesday, for example, it announced an investigation into bank overdra$ fees.

" e CFPB approach to regulation was evident in remarks delivered by Cordray at a recent hearing on payday loans in Birmingham, Ala. He acknowledged that 19 million American households are using the services — and paying $7.4 billion in fees each year for the privilege.

“We recognize the need for emergency credit,” Cordray said. “At the same time, it is important that these products actually help consumers, rather than harm them.” Seems pretty basic.

Properly cra$ ed rules covering ! nancial products will protect consumers and the honest, responsible businesses that sell them. Only the scammers — in industry and government — need to worry.

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Consumer protection advances despite ! erce opposition

Here we go again. Gas prices are at more than $4 a gallon in some parts of the country. Unless they don’t drive, folks can’t escape the pump price pain. Businesses large and small that are dependent upon petroleum feel great pain.

There’s no doubt tensions in the Middle East, particularly in Iran, are a primary reason for rising oil prices. But so are better growth expectations and expected increased demand from countries such as India, China and Brazil.

Those expectations make Wall Street speculators salivate. And why wouldn’t they? If it appears they have a good bet that oil futures bought today may be worth more tomorrow and even more in a month, why wouldn’t they take that bet? Well, they are — Wall Street oil speculation is on the rise ... again. As President Obama said just recently, “When uncertainty increases, speculative trading on Wall Street can drive up prices even more.”

One of the big Wall Street banks has said each million barrels of net speculative length adds as much as 10 cents to the price of a barrel of crude oil. But, what does that mean to us when we fill our tanks? With a little math, you can determine the “speculative premium” on oil

these days is around $23 a barrel — that translates into about an extra 56 cents for a gallon of gas.

I won’t bore you with the arithmetic, but that means if you fill up a Honda Civic, the speculative premium costs $7.39 every time you fill-er-up. If you drive a Ford Explorer or F150, the total is $10.41 and $14.56, respectively.

If folks fill up once a week, the Civic owner is putting out $384.28 more per year, the SUV owner $541.32 more, and the pickup owner $757.12 more. So yes, we’re talking real money and a real drain on families, businesses and our economic recovery.

There’s nothing wrong with speculation. We need speculators to have fully functional financial markets. It’s excessive speculation that becomes a problem. When one or two speculators (often big Wall Street banks) take huge positions, there’s bound to be a price impact. That’s why speculative position limits are necessary and must be implemented soon.

Over the long term, a national energy policy that includes things such as fuel efficiency standards, bio-energy and efforts to produce more domestic energy is also needed. For today though, limiting excessive Wall Street speculation won’t take us back to the days of $1.00 gas, but it will help limit the pump price pain.

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From left to right, freshman diver Kegan Skelton, junior swimmer Thomas Defay, and junior diver Anna Beeck, all members of SIU’s swimming and diving team, received All-American Scholar awards for the team’s cumulative GPA of 3.2. The Swimming Coaches Association of America awards teams the title of All-American Scholars if the cumulative GPA of the athletes is higher than 3.0. See page 11 for the full story.

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