The Boogie Man That Protects Your Wallet
From Real Estate Called Out by Wendy, Founder of Selling Later
October 30, 2025 · 1h 4m · Season 6 · Episode 2
About this episode
David Friend discusses the role of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in protecting consumers and its impact on innovation.
In this episode, we sit down with David Friend, who spent over a decade at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from the recovery for the market crash through 2022. Think the CFPB is a regulatory monster killing innovation? That's exactly what certain billionaire tech leaders want you to believe, because consumer protection tends to get in the way of "moving fast and breaking things" (especially when those "things" are your financial wellbeing). David takes us inside the agency tha...
People in this episode
Host: Wendy
Guest: David Friend
Topics covered
- consumer protection
- financial wellbeing
- regulatory agencies
- market crash
- innovation
Keywords
- CFPB
- consumer protection
- financial wellbeing
- regulatory monster
- market crash
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, CFPB
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