Consumer Protection

Christine Wilson leaving the FTC is good news for anyone who cares about effective antitrust enforcement. A quintessential revolving door figure, Wilson’s tenure was only useful to her job prospects once she decided it was time to leave the FTC.

A 38-car train wreck. Toxic chemicals seeping into water and soil, and a black plume rising in the sky. Sick people, sick pets. As the Prospect’s Jarod Facundo wrote last week, the national spotlight remains fixed on the ecological consequences of the February 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio.

In the context of this ecological disaster, arguing for a reduced budget for federal investigators, air and water quality testing, and programs that hold polluting corporations accountable for proper cleanup and restitution is sheer madness. But that’s exactly what the current right-wing push for massive government spending cuts in the name of deficit reduction would entail.

The Fifth Circuit is trying to destroy the only cop on the beat protecting consumers. SCOTUS must overturn their radical assault on the CFPB.

Congressional Democrats managed to pass a few crucial measures during December’s lame duck session. One tiny fraction of the omnibus bill to fund the government was the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act, a measure for which anti-monopoly advocates have long been pushing. And beyond the DOJ Antitrust and FTC’s edict to enforce competition, the FTC has another underfunded but crucial mission: consumer protection. 

The President should remind Wall Street that hard-working Americans hate getting ripped off.

Housing experts have drafted an executive order to protect tenants and stop rent-gouging. All Biden has to do is sign it.

White collar crooks are behind the campaign to kill the CFPB, but don’t expect the mainstream media to tell you that.

Big business could soon get their chance to kill the CFPB for good, thanks in part to former Obama aide William Daley.

Corporate criminals are terrified of being held accountable by a true public servant, a new Revolving Door Project report reveals.

Biden’s latest executive order promises to restore net neutrality, but a deadlocked FCC could render it an empty promise.