June 21, 2017 U.S. falls out of top 10 in Index of Economic Freedom The United States has fallen out of the top 10 countries in the 2014 Index of Economic Freedom published jointly by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal.
June 21, 2017 You'll shoot your eye out! 12 toys banned by the federal government in 2013 Every year, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission coordinates and promulgates recalled toys deemed unsafe for children.
June 21, 2017 Newly created fed agency aims to monitor 80 percent of credit card transactions Consumer Financial Protection Bureau officials are seeking to monitor four out of every five U.S. consumer credit card transactions this year -- up to 42 billion transactions -- through a controversial data-mining program, according to documents obtained by the Washington Examiner.
May 24, 2017 Judges divided over power of federal consumer agency Federal appeals judges are divided as they hear arguments over whether the president should be able to more easily fire the head of the government's consumer finance watchdog agency.
January 19, 2017 US’ largest student loan company, Navient, cheated millions, suit alleges Federal regulators have sued Navient, accusing the biggest U.S. student loan company of making it harder for borrowers to repay loans by giving them bad information, processing payments incorrectly and failing to act on complaints.
January 12, 2017 Should you disobey most laws? Charles Murray, already controversial for writing books on how welfare hurts the poor, on ethnic differences in IQ and on (less controversial, but my favorite) happiness and good government, has written a new book that argues that it’s time for civil disobedience.
January 12, 2017 Everybody knows a control freak, they're called public servants Control freaks want to run your life. They call themselves “public servants.”
January 12, 2017 Republicans want to repeal ObamaCare -- but maybe they'd keep some of it Despite pledges by Republicans to take down ObamaCare, some still indicate there are parts in the president's controversial health care overhaul that could be preserved if the party ever got its wish of repealing the law.
January 12, 2017 Up in smoke? California lawmaker wants to defund DEA's pot eradication program A California lawmaker is pushing to get rid of the Drug Enforcement Administration's pot eradication program, arguing it's fiscally irresponsible to spend millions burning up marijuana plants at a time when several states are legalizing the drug.
January 12, 2017 Obama faces digital divide growing wider on heels of FCC court ruling The great digital divide that President Obama repeatedly has pledged to fix could grow even wider, after a recent federal court ruling put the president's promise of leveling the tech playing field in jeopardy.