Todd Zywicki testifies before the House Financial Services Committee about the negative impact of proposed legislation like the CFPA and the Credit CARD Act.
Todd Zywicki's op-ed about how imposing a national usury ceiling on credit card interest rates and limits on interchange fees will hurt consumers is published in The Wall Street Journal.
Todd Zywicki is mentioned in the Room
for Debate
blog from NYTimes.com about
responsibility when using credit and debit cards.
"Last year, use of debit cards by consumers surpassed
the use of credit cards. This substitution trend will likely
accelerate this year as continued problems in credit markets have
reduced the supply of credit at the…
Todd Zywicki is interviewed
about the Consumer Financial Protection Agency on
Reason.tv.
"The agency is one of the centerpieces of the Obama
regulatory reform act[s]," says Zywicki, "It goes far
beyond how we've thought about consumer credit regulation for
the past 30 or 40 years." More importantly, it will do nothing
to address pernicious incentives that encouraged…
Todd Zywicki writes an
article on Forbes.com about
President Obama's eroding popularity as a result of unpopular
policy ideas.
"Since the beginning of his term, Obama's personal
popularity has exceeded that of his policies--a gap that was
obviously unsustainable."…
Todd Zywicki is mentioned in an Examiner.com article about the passage of a new, misguided credit card law that may result in people losing their percentage rebates, cash back, or rewards program.
"That ended after the Supreme Court said states couldn't regulate credit card companies outside their borders. That killed off most…