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Scam-Proof Your Life
Get inside information on how to protect your money, your rights and your health with this complete and practical collection of consumer tips by Sid Kirchheimer, AARP scam specialist. More than 100 experts reveal specific… -
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Buyology
How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today’s message-cluttered world? An eye-grabbing advertisement, a catchy slogan, an infectious jingle? Or do our buying decisions take place below… -
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A voice for the consumer
The time has come to give the American consumer a much stronger voice in Washington. President-elect Barack Obama has already named what amounts to an energy and environmental czar in the White House, and America’s… -
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Elizabeth Warren defends consumer agency in mortgage talks
Federal consumer bureau head Elizabeth Warren made no apologies Wednesday for the new agency’s involvement in ongoing settlement negotiations with some of the nation’s largest mortgage servicers, whose widespread flawed foreclosure practices drew national attention… -
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Gadgets you should get rid of
The common rap against technology is that it leads to an accumulation of devices. But the nature of technology is changing. Fewer products are doing more tasks — all accomplished by countless lines of massless… -
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Consumer bureau foes should look at banks
Elizabeth Warren, the Obama administration adviser assigned to set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said lawmakers looking to limit the agency’s authority should focus instead on the Wall Street “behemoths” aiming to undermine its… -
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Consumers add sad stories to new complaint database
Michele Witte waited 14 years to publicly post a complaint with the government about the crib she says killed her 10-month-old son in 1997. When the Consumer Product Safety Commission started accepting product- safety complaints… -
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Foes revise plan to curb new consumer agency
After losing a contentious battle last year over creating an agency to protect consumers against deceptive financial products, Republicans are fighting the battle again, determined to rein in the independence and financing of the agency.… -
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Consumer Action opposes bills to cripple consumer bureau
The House Financial Services Committee is expected to vote Thursday on bills that would damage the new federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) before it even opens its doors. The Bureau is scheduled to… -
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Republicans’ fight against consumer protection
We the people — the people who don’t have the money to hire lobbyists — need a strong Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But if we the people don’t take action, the watchdog agency, which hasn’t… -
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In consumer behavior, signs of gas price pinch
High gasoline prices have not derailed the economic recovery, but that’s small comfort to Loraine Greene. A customer relations manager in the Hudson Valley of New York, Ms. Greene spent the weekend packing up to… -
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Access to consumer complaints keeps everyone accountable
Washington D.C. A coalition of consumer, civil rights, good government, and community groups have called on the new federal financial watchdog, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), to ensure that the public has full and… -
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Buying American is patriotic but difficult to practice
You can’t knock Mark Bloome for his good intentions. The Seattle philanthropist is head of a nonprofit organization called TAP America, which says it wants to strengthen the country by having consumers buy more American-made… -
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Glowing testimonial lands infomercial peddlers in hot water
For the first time, the Federal Trade Commission has charged a consumer with providing a false testimonial to help promote what it says is a get-rich-quick business program. The case against Marsha Kellogg of Ohio… -
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Political battle threatens centerpiece of financial reform
A year ago, President Obama championed the creation of a government agency that would be charged with protecting Americans’ wallets and restore certainty to the nation’s financial system. But just weeks before its official launch,… -
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One in three multivitamins don’t have nutrients claimed in label
A new review of popular multivitamins found that almost a third did not contain the amount of nutrients claimed in their labels. After testing 60 multivitamins , researchers at ConsumerLab.com discovered that many contained either… -
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FCC aims to dissuade unauthorized phone fees
As many as 20 million Americans may have unauthorized charges hidden on their land-line telephone bills, the Federal Communications Commission estimates. This practice of “cramming” charges, typically from $1.99 to $19.99, for unauthorized products or… -
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Wall Street’s newest cop ready for duty
Even as Congress squabbles over who will lead the new consumer watchdog, the fledgling agency is gearing up to police Wall Street. Over the last several months, Republicans have scrutinized the early moves of the… -
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Americans doing more work on weekends
Americans are using the weekends to get more done at home and on the job. What’s more, Americans have cut back a little on time they previously spent relaxing and watching TV, according to the… -
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Banks convince Fed to raise swipe fee cap
The Federal Reserve raised its limit Wednesday on how much merchants must pay to banks each time a debit card is swiped, an eleventh-hour reprieve for the financial industry after a massive lobbying campaign. The… -
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What’s behind GOP attack on product-safety database?
What is it about consumer protection that Republican lawmakers don’t like? Is it that they want to see their constituents fleeced and flimflammed by businesses? Is it that they don’t care? Or is it something… -
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Agency builder, not yet its leader
It is conventional wisdom in this town that the first director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will be anyone but Elizabeth Warren. In nine months overseeing the bureau’s start-up, Elizabeth Warren has made… -
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What’s behind GOP attack on product-safety database?
What is it about consumer protection that Republican lawmakers don’t like? Is it that they want to see their constituents fleeced and flimflammed by businesses? Is it that they don’t care? Or is it something… -
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Ripping off needy seniors through the ‘chained CPI’
Of all the ways policymakers in Washington show they have absolutely no conception of how their tinkerings with the federal budget affect average Americans, one stands alone. That’s the proposal to change the formula that…
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