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...when people have excess money, they will try gambling.'' Steven Brobeck, executive director of the Consumer Federation of America, says credit card companies also are guilty of pushing people beyond their financial limits. ''There are...
...projected Social Security payments and expected retirement ages, according to a report commissioned by the Consumer Federation of America and DirectAdvice.com, an Internet financial-planning service. The survey of 2,400 households with...
...Stephen Brobeck, executive director of the Consumer Federation of America, uses an analogy of the sea when he talks...Internet for names and addresses. On the net: Consumer Federation of America, www.consumerfed.org National Foundation...
...So now is a good time for small savers to shop for better returns on their money. A joint study by the Consumer Federation of America and the Credit Union National Association trade group last year determined that Americans could increase their...
...bottom of the barrel. It should be the very, very best,'' said Carol Tucker Foreman, director of the Consumer Federation of America's Food Policy Institute. ' The department on Tuesday urged Supreme Beef to close voluntarily, but the...
...about their spending patterns," Torres said. Stephen Brobeck, executive director of the Washington-based Consumer Federation of America, argues that "there are a lot of ways to teach kids about finances that don't involve plastic cards...
...New Car Assessment Program, or NCAP. Last year it tested 58 vehicles. Jack Gillis, a spokesman for the Consumer Federation of America which helped develop NHTSA's crash rating system in the late 1970s, praised the move. "There is no question...
...players have long held over Main Street investors. Barbara Roper, director of investor protection at the Consumer Federation of America, called Levitt "the perfect person for the times." "He's put average investors at the center of his...
...blocking new-vehicle sales over the Internet. Two leading consumers' groups, Consumers Union and the Consumers Federation of America, have launched a campaign to promote factory-to-consumer sales via Web sites, which dealers oppose...
...most consumer complaints, as reported by the National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators and the Consumer Federation of America. Heading the list for the first time is the field of home improvement services, overtaking auto sales...