It's my pleasure to welcome you here to the Clark Howard Show.

You know, our mission is to serve you with advice and information that empowers you

to make better financial decisions in your life.

In today's show, I'm being constantly asked how I feel about what's happening to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

I'm going to talk about that straight ahead.

And also today, if you've listened for a long time, you know how much I love Costco.

We have a dog right now named Kirkland Signland signature we had a late dog one that's

passed away that was named costco wholesale i love that place but it seems that there's a shift in

the marketplace and there's another store that people love even more than Costco.

I'm going to talk about that later.

Okay, so the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was the initial primary target

attacked by Doge, by Elon Musk, as a part of the federal government that he wanted to destroy.

And the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is something I really believe in.

I was an advocate of its creation and the aftermath of the banking scandals of, gosh, we're getting closer to it being almost a

generation ago, the banking scandals that led to the Great Recession and all the high

unemployment and the house foreclosures and all that because banks run amok breaking the law more than 15 years ago

closing in on 20. And so the Congress chose to put in place, the Consumer Financial Protection

Bureau, which gave you as a consumer, a place to go to get help if you were having a problem

with the bank that was ignoring you or a credit bureau that had false information about you on

your report and they were ignoring you about various things involved with your and my wallet. And I can understand how the

world's richest man, Musk doesn't understand how important this is to everyday people,

because your money, you worked hard for it. And if it vanishes from your bank account or whatever,

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