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7 Sep 2009, 10:41 am
by Jeff Sovern Friday's Times brought For Your Health, Froot Loops about an industry-backed labeling campaign called "Smart Choices" that's "designed to help shoppers easily identify smarter food and beverage choices. [read post]
3 Sep 2009, 11:20 am
by Jeff Sovern  Last winter, I bought a computer for my daughter. [read post]
2 Sep 2009, 2:45 pm
by Jeff Sovern I've been listening to the audio version of New York Times reporter Edmund Andrews' memoir, Busted: Life Inside the Great Mortgage Meltdown (a portion of the book was published in the Sunday Times magazine under the title My Personal Credit Crisis; we blogged about it here). [read post]
20 Aug 2009, 8:36 am
"Jeff Sovern made mention of this phenomenon briefly in a post at the end of June. [read post]
15 Aug 2009, 11:52 am
by Jeff Sovern Suppose you're a judge presiding over cases in which debt buyers--who have bought credit card debt from credit card companies or, often, other debt buyers--sue the credit card holders for the amounts due on the credit card. [read post]
6 Aug 2009, 6:58 am
by Jeff Sovern The Times has another article today about the tug of war between existing federal regulators and the Obama administration over the desirability of establishing a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency or allowing the existing agencies to keep their consumer protection jurisdiction, Geithner Takes Regulators to Task on Turf Battle. [read post]
1 Aug 2009, 9:46 am
by Jeff Sovern Opponents of a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency sometimes argue that the power to be given to the proposed CFPAs can be exercised by existing agencies, and so it's not necessary to create a new agency. [read post]
31 Jul 2009, 9:31 am
by Jeff Sovern The 2009 edition of our Selected Consumer Statutes should be out in time for fall classes. [read post]
26 Jul 2009, 8:50 am
A false affidavit is akin to perjury, hence the criminal charges against some participants.Hat tip to Brian Wolfman and Jeff Sovern over at the Consumer Law & Policy Blog for pointing the way to the story. [read post]
20 Jul 2009, 11:43 am
by Jeff Sovern Subtitle C of the Obama administration's bill to create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency would give the CFPA the power to promulgate rules "identifying as unlawful unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices in connection with any transaction with a consumer for a consumer financial product or service. [read post]
15 Jul 2009, 6:27 pm
by Jeff Sovern The Fed announced today that it is issuing an Interim Final Rule implementing provisions of the Credit CARD Act that take effect in August. [read post]
7 Jul 2009, 12:29 pm
by Jeff Sovern I recently came across a study by Macro International conducted for the Federal Reserve Board in 2008 titled Consumer Testing of Mortgage Broker Disclosures that sheds some light on that question. [read post]
6 Jul 2009, 5:39 pm
by Jeff Sovern One of the many interesting provisions of the Credit CARD Act that has not received much attention is the limits it imposes on penalty fees. [read post]
2 Jul 2009, 5:56 pm
by Jeff Sovern Some interesting articles in the New York Times today:  One article, Bank Fees Rise as Lenders Try to Offset Losses, may shed some light on the claim that banks are raising credit card fees in response to passage of the Credit CARD Act. [read post]
30 Jun 2009, 11:00 am
by Jeff Sovern This morning, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published the following essay I had written:  Private Sector Commentary: New credit card law has teeth Tuesday, June 30, 2009 By Jeff Sovern The credit card legislation President Obama signed into law represents a sharp break from previous federal credit card statutes. [read post]
24 Jun 2009, 3:06 am
by Jeff Sovern Once upon a time, in a not-so-distant country, peanut butter sales were regulated in a distinctive way. [read post]
23 Jun 2009, 12:37 pm
by Jeff Sovern Critics of Truth in Lending have long complained about the timing of disclosures in mortgage loans: typically, lenders were not required to provide the final loan disclosures until the closing. [read post]
31 May 2009, 1:46 pm
by Jeff Sovern Last December, various federal regulators adopted new credit card regulations (we blogged about them here, among other places). [read post]