We've got some boots on the ground research from Eastern Europe and we've got a conversation

with Trek CEO Brian Fairbanks.

Motley Fool Money starts now.

I'm Chris Hellen and I'm joined by Motley Fool's Senior Analyst Bill Mann.

Thanks for being here.

Hey Chris, how are you?

I'm doing alright.

I'm doing alright.

I want to talk about energy in Europe in a minute, which is something we talked about the

last time you were on the show.

But let's start with the buy now pay later businesses.

And as a refresher, late last year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened an inquiry

into buy now pay later businesses.

And the inquiry appears to be over because today, the Bureau said it plans to subject

buy now pay later companies to the same oversight as credit card companies.

And you tell me what all this means because from a stock perspective, it's not like these

businesses that I'm looking specifically at firm holdings PayPal, which has some exposure

to buy now pay later, and block the company formerly known as Square.

It's not like these stocks are getting hit today.

No, I think this was probably pretty much expected.

So the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau basically said that there are various areas

of potential consumer harm, including things like loan stacking, which is debtors laying

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