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Consumer Action updates daily, headline news from a variety of news sources. The archive provides access in reverse chronological order, grouped by year, than month to allow for easier browsing.

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2010

January

Jan 13, 2010

• Headlines | Deals to restrain generic drugs face a ban
• Spanish Headlines | El poder del individuo
• Spanish Headlines | FBI alerta de posibles fraudes en las donaciones para Haití

Jan 12, 2010

• Headlines | Obama considers new fee on banks
• Headlines | Delta hikes checked-bag fee to $23
• Headlines | Home-appraisal rules drive down values

Jan 11, 2010

• Headlines | Smart phones interact with print publication ads
• Headlines | More car buyers getting loans
• Headlines | Probe finds toxic metal in children’s jewelry
• Headlines | Financial Crisis panel investigates meltdown
• Headlines | Scams target hardest hit by recession

Jan 10, 2010

• Headlines | How to hire a tax preparer
• Headlines | Bizarre year for the estate tax
• Headlines | New rules ease Roth conversions
• Headlines | The damage of card awards

Jan 08, 2010

• Headlines | Bankers at B of A to get bonuses close to 2007 levels
• Headlines | How much should I save?
• Headlines | Outlook for job market is grim
• Headlines | Rising gas prices could be a drag on economic recovery
• Headlines | A foreclosure crisis rooted in predatory lending

Jan 07, 2010

• Headlines | Wells Fargo predatory lending suit dismissed
• Headlines | Funding fuzzy for health-care interest groups
• Headlines | Credit card companies squeezing customers
• Headlines | Driven to distraction: Internet creeps onto dashboards
• Headlines | Conflicted on mortgage-buying program
• Headlines | IRS expects to answer only 71% of calls

Jan 06, 2010

• Chinese Headlines | Get your Credit Report for Free (Chinese)
• Opinions & Editorials | Calling an end to overpriced cell service
• Headlines | Los Angeles officials consider scaling back pensions
• Headlines | Banks take revenge for new consumer rules
• Headlines | Why cable is going to cost you even more
• Headlines | Americans’ job satisfaction falls to record low

Jan 05, 2010

• Headlines | How Visa debit fees dominate market
• Headlines | H&R Block to repay consumers’ IRA fees
• Headlines | Another COBRA health insurance extension
• Headlines | White House wants increased wireless internet access
• Headlines | IRS to regulate paid tax preparation
• Headlines | How Visa, using card fees, dominates a market

Jan 04, 2010

• Headlines | Next up on cable TV, higher bill for consumers
• Headlines | Lax oversight caused crisis
• Headlines | Foreclosures weigh on home appraisals
• Headlines | TSA tries to assuage privacy concerns about full-body scans
• Spanish Headlines | Aumentan las quejas por las bajas tasaciones de viviendas
• Spanish Headlines | Desempleados sufren con seguro médico COBRA
• Spanish Headlines | Para muchos economistas, la tacañería es un axioma de sus vidas

Jan 03, 2010

• Headlines | Turn out the lights on the ‘aughts’
• Headlines | Money resolutions to make in 2010
• Headlines | Living on nothing but food stamps
• Headlines | Investors foil other home buyers

Jan 02, 2010

• Headlines | For savers it was hardly a lost decade

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