Fed wants to strip a key protection for homeowners
Dees Illustration Tony Pugh McClatchy WASHINGTON — As Americans continue to lose their homes in record numbers, the Federal Reserve is considering making it much…
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Incomes Fall, Consumer Spending Weakest in 3 Months
Activist Post Only a few days after the U.S. government reported that the economy expanded 2% in the third quarter on consumer spending, where they…
Regulators prey on food processing plant in effort to pass federal food legislation
Ethan A. Huff Natural News The Texas Department of State Health Services recently ordered Sangar Produce, a San Antonio-based produce processor, to cease operations and…
Consumers Still Aware of Impending Doom
10% Savings Rate + Consumer Spending at 65% of GDP = Retail Disaster Jim Quinn Minyanville Now that the Wall Street Journal, New York Times,…
Are Consumers Finally Winning in Washington?
Ron Paul Campaign For Liberty This past week the administration announced its choice for the first credit czar at the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau….
The food industry, like Big Pharma, controls the FDA and USDA
Jonathan Benson Natural News The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) recently released a report highlighting the widespread influence of the food industry over food safety…
FDA won’t allow food to be labeled free of genetic modification: report
Raw Story ‘Extra labeling only confuses the consumer,’ biotech spokesman says That the Food and Drug Administration is opposed to labeling foods that are genetically…
FDA sends warning letters to e-cigarette companies
Michael Felberbaum Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — The Food and Drug Administration is lighting a fire under the electronic cigarette industry to work with the…
BPA contamination found in 90 percent of soup cans
David Guttierez Natural News A product survey conducted by The Independent found that the toxic chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) is used in 18 on the 20 top-selling canned…
U.S. Government Prepares for Crisis
Jeff Nielson The Street Most market reporters, commentators and politicians continue to rely upon nothing but the same short-term “snapshots” which have caused them to…
Ben & Jerry’s ‘natural’ ice cream filled with unnatural ingredients
Ethan A. Huff Natural News Consumer watchdog group Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is calling out popular ice cream maker Ben &…
When Agrochemical Corporations Invented Nature
Julio Godoy American Chronicle Delegates from some 300 environmental and consumer organisations from all over the world gathered last month in Bavarian capital Munich, some…
Consumer Reports Calls for F.D.A. Regulation of Supplements
Thomas Corriher The Health Wyze Report There was a political firestorm over dietary supplements and herbs in the early 1990’s. Natural medicines in the U.S….
U.S. dietary supplements often contaminated: report
Maggie Fox Reuters Many popular dietary supplements contain ingredients that may cause cancer, heart problems, liver or kidney damage, but U.S. stores sell them anyway…