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 Jeremy Webster | May 6, 2021 | Press Releases, Recent News - Will Hild, Updates
Attorney General Steve Marshall has received an award from the nation’s oldest consumer protection organization for the Alabama Attorney General’s Office’s recent historic $60 million consumer settlement against Terminix. The “Consumer Champion” award was presented...
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...