# Multimedia 

Multimedia 

---

- [Podcasts](/podcasts)
- [Cato Video](/multimedia/cato-video)
- [Video Series](/search/category/video-series)
- [Events](/multimedia/events)

[ 

Download Episode 

](https://assets.pippa.io/shows/5e28e0d8963f166217546493/1aaa373d-27f1-42f0-bad0-7f255a959cb2.mp3)Subscribe:

[ 

Apple Podcasts 

](http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/cato-daily-podcast/id158961219) [ 

Spotify 

](https://open.spotify.com/show/4dHRhKEljj8zcLdl3Gvsv7) 

Cato Weekly Podcast • November 29, 2017 

# The Continuing Fight over the Throne at CFPB 

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is less accountable than most federal agencies by design. That’s in part why outgoing director Richard Cordray felt perfectly comfortable naming his own replacement. Thaya Brook Knight discusses the fight.

[![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) 
This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). 

##### Featuring 

[![Media Name: thayaknight-cropped.jpg](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/author_picture/public/authors/crops/thayaknight-cropped.jpg?itok=SvBsRZyC)](/people/thaya-knight) 

##### [Thaya Brook Knight](/people/thaya-knight)

Former Associate Director of Financial Regulation Studies 

[![Square face shot of Caleb O. Brown.](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/author_picture/public/2021-01/cbrown_sq.jpg?itok=zSWLm8kR)](/people/caleb-o-brown) 

##### [Caleb O. Brown](/people/caleb-o-brown)

Former Director of Multimedia, Host and Executive Producer, *Cato Daily Podcast*, Cato Institute