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Annual Rate of Consumer Price Inflation Highest in 17 1/2 Years
Despite their large impact on consumers, we usually don't report on monthly consumer price, unemployment, or other statistics concerning the health of the U...

Pelosi: Jump in Consumer Price Index Demonstrates Need for New Economic Recovery Stimulus Package
Washington, D.C. ? Speaker Nancy Pelosi today issued the following statement today in reaction to the 1...

Ministerial Council on Consumer Affairs meeting 8 May 2009
The Ministerial Council on Consumer Affairs (MCCA) met in Hobart on 8 May 2009 to develop an Intergovernmental Agreement on the new national consumer policy framework by 30 June 2009 that will lead to putting the new Australian Consumer Law...

Clarity in pricing commences on 25 May
A new Section 53C of the Trade Practices Act will commence on 25 May 2009. The amendments require that where a business makes a price representation to a consumer and that amount is less than what the consumer will actually...

Consumer Credit Explodes in June, Further Proving Consumer Claims Unfounded
Despite what a recent Javelin Strategy & Research online survey suggested about consumer credit use being down in the midst of the nation's current economic struggles, recently-released Federal Reserve numbers for the month of June reveal quite the opposite about consumer credit.

2009 Bankruptcy Filings Up
According to a July 2, 2009 Bloomberg report, there were 675,351 consumer bankruptcy filings in the first half of 2009, a 36...

Truth In Lending Act
Consumer Loans and Consumer Credit Protection Act

How do you recover money from a stop payment placed on a personal check given to you?
you can always take them to small claims court and sure them for 3 times the amo...

How to learn content of deceased parent's will?
go to the court house where your father died or the county he lived in. It is pu...

The renters that i have took my furnace out of rental house, riped all the wall paper off the walls, broke the windows busted the door off its hinges, plus broke the leaded glass out of the door, door is just leaning aga
You may be able to file a vandalism or destruction of private property complaint...

My landlord can't afford the house I am renting, and is going to sell it or forclosure - ?
I am sorry about your situation. Unfortunately there is not much you can do. Rig...

I had an account with GEMB/Select Comfort to buy a new bed back in 2005. After paying it off (in 2006), I requested they close the account. In January of 2008, I declared bankruptcy (chapter 7). The creditor was NOT list
if you did pay it off before the bankruptcy and it wasn't listed as a accou...

Cash4Gold Hit with Consumer Fraud Class Action
Cash4Gold Hit with Consumer Fraud Class Action

CVS
Consumer Products Sold Past Their Expirey Dates

Mexican Vanilla Containing Coumarin
, FDA Issues Consumer Update

Ford Focus
Consumer Class Action Settles for Cash Refunds

AmeriGas, Blue Rhino
Face Consumer Class Action

Germantown Primary Care Associates, P.C.
Unlawfully collected fees refunded in Consumer Protection Act violation suit.