Editorial: Will Mick Mulvaney be the end of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as we know it?

White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney once likened government regulations to a "slow cancer," an attitude he shares with many in the Trump administration. So it's hardly surprising that, in his new part-time role as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Mulvaney would waste little time pulling back on the agency's rules and its authority. It's yet another reminder, as if any more were necessary, that elections