by Jeremy Webster | Apr 18, 2023 | Recent News - Will Hild
This week, Consumers’ Research, a consumer advocacy group founded in 1929, is inaugurating “Woke Alerts,” a free direct-to-consumer text service to call out corporate pandering to the far left’s ideology when it occurs. The Woke Alerts service will be backed by a...
by Jeremy Webster | Mar 14, 2023 | Updates
Consumers’ Research’s new mobile billboard campaign exposes the hypocrisy of ESG investing ahead of President Biden using his veto power for the first time to strike down bipartisan anti-ESG legislation passed by both the House and Senate. “I applaud House...
by Jeremy Webster | Mar 8, 2023 | Recent News - Tom Miller
For centuries, rulers and lawmakers have imposed interest rate caps. These caps likely stem from the widely held belief that caps make loans cheaper for necessitous individuals. This belief persists today. But suppose the belief is wrong? Economic theory...
by Jeremy Webster | Feb 16, 2023 | Recent News - Tom Miller
College football fans were treated to a thrilling end to this year’s college football season, including the exhilarating slugging matches in the semi-finals and Georgia’s decisive win in the championship. But after the hubbub dies down, we cannot ignore the...
by Jeremy Webster | Feb 16, 2023 | Recent News - Tom Miller
Economic theory predicts that a binding interest-rate cap decreases credit availability for high-risk borrowers. On March 23, 2021, Illinois imposed an all-in interest-rate cap of 36 percent per annum for loans under $40,000 from non-bank and non-credit-union lenders....
