Consumer Confidential: Trump is creating a task force to rewrite consumer laws. Here's how to apply

When a government agency announces a task force to "modernize" laws, it's not unreasonable to think they're acting in the public's interest - for instance, updating privacy laws to keep pace with technological advances.

So it should be reason for optimism that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says it's forming a task force "to examine ways to harmonize and modernize federal consumer financial laws."

That is, until you recall the various ways the CFPB has worked to undermine consumer financial laws since the business-friendly Trump administration took power.

Then you have to wonder: Which laws exactly does the CFPB see as needing harmonization