by Editor | Jul 28, 2021 | Recent News - Tom Miller
On June 21, the Supreme Court ruled that the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s strict limits on compensation for student-athletes violated antitrust law. The door is now open for college athletes to license their names, images and likenesses. The...
by Editor | Jul 28, 2021 | Recent News - Tom Miller
Consumers’ Research Senior Fellow Professor Tom Miller, Jr. will testify before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs at 10:00 A.M. Thursday, July 29. The hearing is entitled “Protecting Americans from Debt Traps by Extending the...
by Editor | Jul 16, 2021 | Recent News - Will Hild
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by Editor | May 19, 2021 | Recent News - Will Hild
A conservative group has launched a more than $1 million advertising campaign to “name and shame” companies and executives for putting “woke politics over consumer interests.” Consumers’ Research, a right-leaning consumer protection group, said the initial...
by Editor | Apr 5, 2021 | Recent News - Beau Brunson
Good news for movie buffs: 98 percent of AMC Theatres nationwide are now open to the public. I could not be more relieved. After watching movies exclusively at the Brunson household for a year, I’m dying to get back in those theater seats. When theaters were...
by Editor | Mar 22, 2021 | Recent News - Tom Miller
Why is the Senate allowing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to drift away from Senator Elizabeth Warren’s original vision of a data-driven agency “with research at the core of all of its work?” Prudent regulators should not make policy based on mere...
by Jeremy Webster | May 14, 2019 | Mercatus Center Publications
We appreciate the opportunity to respond to the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection’s (Bureau) proposed rule governing payday, vehicle-title, and certain high-cost installment loans. The Mercatus Center at George Mason University is dedicated to bridging the gap...
by Editor | May 10, 2019 | Recent News - Tom Miller
I. Introduction All financial regulations should be grounded firmly in empirical research. The reach of federal rules is too large not to proceed with extreme care and caution, particularly if rules disproportionately affect economically vulnerable Americans....
