Joseph R. Mason

Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business

Joseph R. Mason is a fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and an academic affiliate at the BVA Group. Dr. Mason was previously a professor of finance and the Hermann Moyse, Jr./Louisiana Bankers Association chair of banking at Louisiana State University, a senior financial economist at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. He holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Regulation and compliance

The CFPB's recent lawsuits cement the case for its dissolution

A trio of high-profile lawsuits issued at the tail end of the Biden administration indicate that the agency cares more about pursuing a political agenda than it does about helping American consumers.

By Joseph R. Mason

January 30