Senate Democrats are warning the Trump administration not to cut an arcane but critical function of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that underpins the housing market as officials move to dismantle the agency. At issue is the CFPB’s weekly publication of Average Prime Offer Rate tables, a key benchmark enabling the smooth operation of the $13 trillion residential mortgage market. Most Read from Bloomberg The consumer bureau said in a court filing last month that it would run out of funds in “ear ...

When retired Army veteran Luis Angel Gomez hired Dreamscape Pools for his Hillsborough County, Florida home in 2023, he thought his backyard project would be straight-forward — as his niece’s was. But, unlike his niece’s experience, it turned into what Gomez calls his “biggest nightmare ever.” (1) After he paid almost the full contract price of $111,535, contractor David Robbins stopped showing up, leaving Gomez with an unfinished pool and mounting financial strain. Other people across Florida report sim ...