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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.
- Norovirus stomach flu cases triple
- How to avoid car financing traps
- States to expand health coverage
- Auto safety data a trade secret?
- FTC fines diet pill makers for deceptive ads
- Transferring to a 0% credit card
- AT&T naked DSL: just for show?
- Stamping out unwanted junk mail
- Carbon monoxide poisoning on rise
- Passports needed for trips to Canada, Mexico
- Four nearly painless financial resolutions
- Mortgage ‘tricks’ and shady brokers
- Healthy? Insurers don’t buy it
- What’s up with food from cloned animals?
- AT&T-BellSouth merger approval likely
- Credit agencies lag on errors, fraud
- Stop pretexters before they get your phone records
- Five financial resolutions for young adults
- Any solutions to customer service frustration?
- Women often not prepared for retirement
- Is your credit history still married?
- Borrowers lose big with car title pawn loans
- Ugly credit card trends
- Common and costly college loan mistakes
- Avoid these 35 outrageous fees
- Holiday brings refinancing boomlet
- Postal reform seeks predictable postal rates
- Phone giants get FCC approval on TV
- Phone firms await FCC cable ruling
- Dim forecast for risky mortgages
- Beware Katrina salvage cars with ‘washed’ titles
- Black cohosh no aid for menopause symptoms
- Trim taxes with flex accounts
- Give old cars to needy, not auctions
- Conditions likely on AT&T-BellSouth merger
- Health care debate to heat up in ‘07
- Cybercrooks hold PC data captive
- Most people unprepared for disaster
- Nothing new—and that’s the point
- 30 years of obsessive consumerism
- Credit report fees on the rise
- Credit card fees surprise consumers
- Homebuyers beware of supersized commissions
- Census portrait of the American people
- Beware Canadian lotto scam
- Wireless banking and anti-hacking safeguards
- Umbrella policy a holiday party essential
- High-cost mortgage foreclosures increase
- Affordable housing: Low-wage workers ignored
- U.S. health system unprepared, report says
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