Revolving door at regulator CFPB enables former bureaucrats to cash in at taxpayers' expense

◼ What’s remarkable about the revolving-door action at the CFPB this year is that it’s completely unremarkable for the agency. - Timothy P. Carney/Washington Examiner @TPCarney

The Democratic Congress and the Obama White House created the CFPB with its 2010 Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill. The top aides to Messrs. Dodd and Frank, of course, have cashed out to K Street and Wall Street.

So have many of the regulators at the Federal Reserve, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Treasury Department who helped implement the rules required by the law.

But the CFPB was supposed to be different. Other financial regulators were “captured” by the industries they were supposed to regulate. One reason was the revolving door: play ball with the banks, and you’ve got a nice job waiting when you get sick of government work. So Congress thought it was time to replace those captured regulators with a new, un-captured regulator....