Lecture 4: Membrane Proteins - Porins. View of the trimeric membrane protein maltoporin looking down on the membrane plane. The view has been restricted to amino acids 1-360 so that the pore is clearly visible. Beta strands are coloured yellow, turns and loops blue and white, helix is shown in red.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is an an agency of the United States government responsible for consumer protection in the financial sector.
Created as part of the Dodd-Frank financial legislation, the agency was supposed to be a federal consumer watchdog guarding against predatory mortgage and auto lending practices, unfair credit card terms, and the like. It was brainchild of progressive darling Senator Elizabeth Warren. What made the CFPB so troubling, though, wasnât its mission. Itâs the fact that it was intentionally created to be a dictatorial technocracy answerable to no one. Congressional Democrats wrote a law creating the agency so that it was not accountable to Congress or even governed by the congressional appropriations process. Nor was the CFPB accountable to the executive branch.