It definitely doesn't have a catchy name: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But our guest this week says, "if you're returning almost $20 billion to ordinary people, you've got to be doing something right". In the past several years, dissatisfied and frustrated Texas consumers have comprised the most---or second most---number of people turning to the CFPB for help taking on 'Big Finance'. But now the agency they counted on is itself in danger under Trump 2.0. UT-Austin Banking, Financial, Commercial and Corporate Law Professor Angela Littwin previously wrote an opinion column about saving the CFPB when its survival was threatened before. She joins us to talk about what its demise would mean for Texans. Guest: Angela K. Littwin Charles Sapp Chair in Banking, Financial, Commercial and Corporate Law Professor 0:29 - Welcome and update from previous episode 2:28 - Consumer Financial Protection Bureau website (CFPB) is offline 6:30 - Professor Littwin joins the podcast 7:12 - What to know about CFPB 10:21 - Problems CFPB takes on 12:25 - The end of CFPB? 14:32 - How does CFPB affect you 16:24 - $19.7 billion returned to consumers thanks to CFPB 18:38 - Medical debt on credit reports 21:52 - David vs. Goliath 22:58 - Why was CFPB created? 24:33 - Number of complaints to CFPB from Texas 30:58 - Elon Musk and CFPB 34:49 - Takeaways from financial experts 36:48 - Advice from Professor Littwin